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 ...
Ain’t that the truth! Growing up in the 70’s and 80’s a large % of the most popular bands or their lead singer/frontman was a flamer!
They did try to hide it from the general public. No more.....
One in 11 million? With my luck, it would happen 5 minutes after I win the lottery...
I agree,get back to us when the threat is 50% or more.BTW I got released from the hospital yesterday.
“The odds of impact translate into a 0.0000092% chance of cataclysm or a 99.9999908% chance the asteroid will miss Earth.”
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“NASA asteroid DANGER: A 2,700 MEGATON asteroid might hit Earth this October”
And people dont get why so many hate the press?
Congress has not repealed Newton’s Laws.
Oh, I'd like to send those two on a flyby of Jupiter. Remember how Jupiter pulled the Shoemaker-Levy comet apart? Imagine it pulling big blobs of fat off Michael Moore.
FR's hall monitors are really growing tiresome. If you don't like a thread, move on. That's what I've been doing for the past 18 years.
Little wonder why FR is but a shadow of what it used to be. All the killjoys and their "no fun threads allowed!" mindset.
We're not changing the world here. There's nothing wrong with posting threads about killer asteroids. Or at least there shouldn't be (and didn't used to be).
Does this mean we won’t have to wait 11 plus years for climate change to do the trick?
I'm not sure. Apparently so, that or the wind will catch it. Looks like I'm going to have to start carrying an umbrella in October.
Probably because of global warming climate change. I hear it's quite powerful. /s
It’s missing a W.
I was wondering the same thing. Maybe it’s a Juneteenth kind of word.
Yep! Now the ones who have not died of AIDS, lecture us on LGBTQI and pedophilia rights. I am certain that these people will usher in the Anti-Christ when he is revealed (like Daniel 3)
Everybody calm down. There’s always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet.
People win lotteries with worse odds that that.
And we don’t even have space shuttles anymore to launch a preemptive nuke attack on it!
Never bet on the end-of-the-world.
How are you gonna collect if you win?
Yeah, who knows, maybe it will hit in a “good” place.
I say let’s drill a hole in it and nuke it! Who’s with me?!?
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