Posted on 09/01/2022 8:46:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The space agency estimates there are about 25,000 asteroids of at least 140m in diameter near Earth's orbit. While the odds of them crashing into our planet at any given time are minuscule, Congress directed Nasa to find 90 per cent of them by 2020.
Scientists have found fewer than half. But for reasons it has not publicly explained, the administration has proposed delaying by two years, until 2028, the launch of an infrared space telescope meant to find those threatening asteroids and sharply cutting its budget for next year.
About 500 times a year, researchers identify asteroids of at least 140m in diameter near Earth's orbit.
They're not quite as big as the 10km to 15km asteroid that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs, but there's more of them and they're harder to find.
Such asteroid strikes happen rarely: The same report put the average interval between them at 20,000 years. Much more frequently, Earth gets the smaller variety space objects that leave their own trail of destruction.
In 2013, a roughly 20m asteroid broke apart about 25km above the town of Chelyabinsk, Russia, shattering windows and injuring more than 1,600 people. Russia also was the site of the most destructive asteroid in recorded human history.
For now, Nasa is still mostly reliant on ground-based observations to spot objects of 140m or more. Officials also repurposed a space telescope, called Neowise, that was originally meant to find planets - but it's only discovered five large asteroids this year.
The Surveyor telescope is projected to have a wider field of vision, allowing scientists to get a broader landscape of nearby asteroids,,, And its infrared sensors will spot dark asteroids invisible to the naked eye.
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Planetary Mutual Assured Destruction. Can’t have “Civil Defense” or defense of any kind. It’s be too destabilizing for intergalactic peace.
Christ told His disciples that no one would know the actual day or hour of His return, “not even the angel’s”.
Scripture clearly teaches there is going to be a near global scale catastrophic meteorite hit, as one of the many judgement’s God is going to pour out on the earth in the future, due to man’s horrific and evil rebellion and sin against God.
Revelation 8:10-12
“The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star [meteorite] fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. 11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter [poisonous].
Maybe the White Huts current satanic directives are to locate try and locate what Scrioture calls “Wormwood”, as a way of trying to calculate date of impact, so the satanic boss has a method of calculating more specific time left -
According to Scripture, Satan doesn’t know Gods focused timetables.
Christ told His disciples that no one would know the actual day or hour of His return, “not even the angel’s”.
Scripture clearly teaches there is going to be a near global scale catastrophic meteorite hit, as one of the many judgement’s God is going to pour out on the earth in the future, due to man’s horrific and evil rebellion and sin against God.
Revelation 8:10-12
“The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star [meteorite] fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. 11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter [poisonous].
Maybe the White Huts current satanic directives are to locate try and locate what Scrioture calls “Wormwood”, as a way of trying to calculate date of impact, so the satanic boss has a method of calculating more specific time left -
According to Scripture, Satan doesn’t know Gods focused timetables.
I have always disagreed with that state.
Baffling?
Not to me.
Why find them if you cannot do anything about them?
Good point.
It’s a stupid point based on a false premise.
Biden’s handlers thank you for your support, however.
Right now on Earth we have 24 time zones (actually a few more than that) and two different days being experienced by humans.
HE didn't mention month or year.
What can we do about large meteors?
You appear to be of the opinion that humans CAN do something about a ‘killer’ space rock.
Care to elaborate?
Actually, we might well be able to do something. For one thing we could likely have decades of warning. (The searchers are not authorized to project orbits further into the future than 100 years.) With that kind of warning it is likely that very cost effective solutions could be devised. The object that caused the Barringer Crater in Arizona about 50,000 years ago (a eyeblink in cosmic time) was only a few meters across. The meteor that released about 200 times more energy than a hydrogen bomb over Tunguska, Siberia in 1908 probably never even impacted the earth, merely glancing off the atmosphere.
If we could change the velocity of an asteroid by one inch per second ten years in advance, we could change its trajectory by more than the radius of the earth ten years in the future.
I can think of several ways to gradually alter their orbits so they don’t hit us. Implementing those methods is neither easy nor quick. If there really are any seriously threatening objects out there, the sooner we find out, the sooner we can start building a solution.
Or we could wallow in ignorance until it’s too late.
Choose wisely.
Really?
I'd guess that the orbits can't be calculated that far into the future for such small objects due to gravitational influences of large (planetary) masses.
Look, we know the threat exists. It would be better to develop a defensive method first or in conjunction with the search.
Knowing without the ability to change it will just cause frustration and panic.
See post 35.
We’ve already fouled our nest.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/hq/library/find/bibliographies/space_debris
Killer space rocks or not, every one of us WILL die of something.
Make your plans.
Well, now ... that's a remarkably sane comment. Congratulations. You do realize you're agreeing with me, right?
Pedo Joe and his handlers want to call off the search.
And when I go, I want it to be in my sleep - just like grandpa.
Not screaming and crying like his passengers.
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