Posted on 07/06/2019 7:37:25 AM PDT by LibWhacker
AN ASTEROID with the destructive power of 2,700 megatons of explosive TNT risks slamming into the Earth later this year, NASA’s asteroid trackers have revealed.
The imposing asteroid, dubbed Asteroid FT3, will come barrelling past our home planet on October 3, 2019. NASA expects the flyby to mark the first of 165 approaches between 2019 and 2116. On any one of these asteroid flybys, the risk of cataclysm is low but should the asteroid veer off course and straight into Earth, the results could be cataclysmic. Asteroid FT3 is a monstrous rocky object measuring an estimated 1,115ft (340m) in diameter.
NASA further estimates the asteroid weighs an incredible 55,000,000,000kg.
If the asteroid were to ever hit the Earth, at the point of atmospheric entry, the rock would slam into the planet at 20.37km per second or more than 45,500mph.
The force of impact would likely be equal to 2,700 megatons of TNT or 2,700,000,000 tonnes of TNT.
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So, what are the odds of this asteroid striking the Earth in October?
Thankfully, the risk is incredibly low but it is not non-existent.
There is a small chance – about one in 11,000,000 – Asteroid FT3 will crash into us in the next three months.
The odds of impact translate into a 0.0000092% chance of cataclysm or a 99.9999908% chance the asteroid will miss Earth.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
Develop some thicker skin - other folks' opinions shouldn't cause a mature adult such angst...
Remember that when we hear the libs whining, we usually say that we are right over the target...
When you reply to something you don't like, use real language - profanity (or the abbreviation of it) is a weak mind trying to express itself...not what one who seems to claim some sort of special "sciencey" knowledge would be saying/implying...
Lied about my age at 15 to get a job while in school and worked for 47 years to earn my paychecks - of course, some consider a military career "welfare" because they never developed a solid work ethic and are jealous of those who plugged along until a comfortable retirement was attained.
Watching how you spend your money and deciding that there's nothing worth spending it on are two different things...some folks are just cheap and expect others to pay their stumbling way through life and ignore that they opt 'to be careful" with their money (great excuse/alibi for FReeloading leeches with a implied "feel sorry for me" sympathy hook.
Ever hear the saying, "If a man has nothing he considers worth dying for, he has nothing worth living for."? Then what does one who can't find something worth $5-$10 a month have to live for? (not to mention that they can afford a computer/internet/to sit on their ass all month long).
Since you haven't just blown me off yet, and remember an event from a couple years ago, I'm assuming I'm over target...
Good day.
Good Lord, you're vain! You think I remember something you wrote years ago, when everything you write is nothing but common barroom wisdom? Yet you claim you taught computer science. Gimme a break!!!
Stay out of my threads; you have nothing to contribute. I'll stay out of your vanities.
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