NASA calculated that the asteroid that could hit Earth in 2022 has the power of 150 Hiroshima bombs

thenewstrace.com ^ | 01/10/2021

[Bikkuri]

Looks like 1 of my Kerbal space probes :D

[Salamander]

If the debris goes too far west I’d be doomed but I guess it’s a sacrifice for the good of the whole.

[lurk]

The dems will use it to their advantage.

[TigersEye]

Really! Can they find a way to speed up the time line?

[dfwgator]

LOL, I think you pretty much captured what we’re all thinking right now.

[dfwgator]

[dfwgator]

Women and Minorities Hardest Hit.

[TigersEye]

kinetic energy

[tallyhoe]

Hope it lands right in the middle of DC!!!

That would surely clean house!!!

[alexander_busek]

NASA calculated that the asteroid that could hit Earth in 2022 has the power of 150 Hiroshima bombs

Its impact against the Earth could cause an explosion equivalent to 230 kilotons of dynamite. You have to calculate that the Hiroshima bomb had only 15 kilotons of power.

230 kt divided by 15 kt = 15.3 times the Hiroshima bomb.

Math, much?

Regards,

[dfwgator]

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

This 3/4-mile wide crater was made by a 50-meter (160-foot) nickel-iron meteorite 50,000 years ago.
It would have flattened every tree or structure 20 miles around it.
A rocky or cometary meteorite would have to be twice or three times as wide to survive to the ground.
Worst case is if it explodes just before hitting the ground which would double the area of devastation. (like Tunguska)
A 1-km meteorite would wreck a continent, or at sea make a tidal wave larger than seen anywhere by modern man on every adjacent shore.

Meteor Crater, Arizona

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

The Chelyabinsk meteor was bigger, 20 meters and 500Kt.
It exploded a little below 20 miles up.

[Organic Panic]

Trumps fault exacerbated by runaway climate change. Pass a new regulation.

[mabarker1]

I want ALL My chicom plague and SSDI/Survivor Payments up to that date PAID IN FULL on 01/02/21 !!!

[Fresh Wind]

The largest nuclear bomb ever exploded on earth (10/30/61) is said to have had a yield of 50 megatons of TNT, or 50,000 kilotons.

That would be a bit over 3333 Hiroshima bombs.

Amazingly, the earth didn’t end then and there.

[precisionshootist]

LMAO

[familyop]

"...probability of impact is 1 in 3,800 (0.026%)...The Space Agency viewed it through Sentry in 2009, estimating it to be around 13 meters in diameter."

I'm truly sorry, but I'm going to have to give that one a rating of less than one doomsday cult (see Kool-Aid symbol). Thirteen meters is barely big enough to make a boom while entering the atmosphere and fragmenting, and a chance in 3,800 wouldn't offer any sensual hope at all (or hope of sensuous arousal, for that matter). :(

[Old Yeller]

No chance that it could be this year?

[Former Proud Canadian]

My homestead is a mile north of the north shore of Lake Huron. Will I be ok?