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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Pop it with a nuke while it’s still a month away. Or in a prior swing by, as it is headed away. We certainly can get one there.
That will either:
Give the asteroid a slight nudge. (It’s probably a nickel-iron solid body if it holds together.) With the scale of space involved, “slight” means it will miss Earth by millions of miles.
Break up the asteroid. (More likely, as many are essentially closer to gravel piles than solid “rocks”.) The force will still put the pieces on new trajectories, slightly different than the old trajectory. Once again, with the scale of space involved, “slight” means they will miss by millions of miles.
Ya know, it just occurred to me, these people do a lot of self-destructive stuff anyway...
The nightmare scenario is you break the thing into several pieces some of which still head for the Earth.
That could make the problem worse.
“That could make the problem worse.”
Or break the thing into small enough pieces that burn up in the atmosphere.
Or we could hit it again to break it up farther.
LBJ was the last Democratic president who cared much for the US space program. That was during the Cold War, and he once said he didn’t want to go to bed under the light of a communist moon. The Democrats we have had in the White House since then all seemed to think NASA is a waste of money.
The money for the telescopes will be misappropriated and used to Kiss Black Ass
Asteroids don’t matter. Most democrats don’t even know what an asteroid is. Black votes to maintain control of the City State is all that matters
Political analysis
If we continue on our current course a Chinese moon is a certainty.
Baffling moves is their specialty. Do they even have a clue?
🎚🇮🇱 “HE didn’t mention month or year.”🇮🇱🎚
Agreed! And Agreed!
In fact, Christ Himself expounded with strong language in Matthew 24 and 25, which are packed full of description, and warnings, specifically telling us to be ready when specific times and things begin to take place!
Thessalonian encouragement for the “trump of God” immediately preceding Gods wrath!
Later “Look up for your redemption draws nigh!”
Many warnings to the individual and church, and about “apostacy”, worldly and demonic infiltration and ecumenical compromise, etc...
Then blessing for those who read and meditate on the “Revealing of Christ and His holiness, and justice”, and His total power and sovereignty over evil hearts of men, and Satan!
🕚 Maranatha!
The graphic is entirely accurate -
The only thing better would be Obama’s face on the baphomet...
Why?
It's not like anyone is going to get in their face if they are wrong.
Besides; it didn't seem to bother Nostradumas much.
Why?
It's not like anyone is going to get in their face if they are wrong.
Besides; it didn't seem to bother Nostradumas much.
(Sounds like a really cool job!)
bingo
Earth Destroying Event
Well...
There's a book I've read (and refer to frequently) that has predicted events hundreds of years into the future.It'll be interesting to see/hear how certain events are described in the media of the future.
But this is NOT how it is in actuality.
The baricenter of the earth-moon system is below the surface of the earth, and THAT point is what is going around the sun smoothly.
This picture is NOT accurate, but a lot closer to reality than 99.999 of the ones we see all the time.
Cheesy carnival ride to help explain earth-moon
ChANged from a deer slug to buckshot
I'm confused.
How would we target the pieces?
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