Posted on 03/30/2023 10:10:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin
One of the most concerning things about the Chelyabinsk event has to do with the ease at which the asteroid evaded our detection systems in use at the time. On the same day the Chelyabinsk asteroid exploded over eastern Russia, NASA had been tracking... 2012 DA14, as it passed within just 17,200 miles from Earth.
March 2023...chief scientist with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, presented new findings on impact features at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference at Johnson Space Center. Based on recent satellite data, Garvin thinks previously hidden features of ancient impact features could indicate they are much larger than they appear and thereby represent events that were potentially far more devastating than previously thought.
Based on Garvin’s estimates, each crater he and other researchers analyzed in the tens of kilometers size range probably resulted in an explosion ten times greater than the largest nuclear explosion in history.
According to Garvin and his team’s research, there might have been as many as a dozen kilometer-sized asteroids that smashed into Earth, with at least a quarter of them striking land. However, not everyone agrees with what Garvin has proposed. Polish Academy of Sciences crater researcher Anna Łosiak told Science that if Garvin’s findings were accurate, it would mean “we really don’t understand what’s going on at all” with asteroid impacts.
If one of NASA’s chief scientists is indeed correct about the recent asteroid assessment, it could obviously mean that there is far more to be concerned about in the event of future asteroid approaches that could potentially endanger our planet. Fortunately, the recent success of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which demonstrated the ability to use kinetic impactor spacecraft to offset the motion of potentially dangerous near-Earth objects (NEOs), offers a hopeful outlook for Earth and its future.
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BRING IT!
Please please I hope so....That’s a better fate than dealing with all these leftist nutcakes for another 30 plus years.
As long as it hits DC, I’m good.
The earth is at great risk from deadly politicians prohibiting beneficial CO2 emissions.
It the sun doesn’t explode first.
what are the chances of a “fire ball” be released from our sun and hit Earth.
At this point, what difference does it make?
100% probability, eventually.
Is Zhou Xiden a moron? Is the Pope a heretic?
When I was kid we were told in science class that large meteors never struck the earth anymore.
It was settled science
Worrying about this is like worrying about Yellowstone rupturing. If it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen. You might as well not fret, because you can’t change the outcome.
If it is, then we can stop worrying about “climate change.”
If you watch the screen or read the news the several per day doom-n-death stories covering that subject seem adequate.
no
It’s only coming for San Francisco ala Sodom and Gomorrah.
“large meteors never struck the earth anymore”
Good plan by the teacher—if they were wrong you would not be alive to tell them about it.
Let me guess...there’s a Chinese lab doing gain of function research on asteroids
WEF is thataway ⬅️⬅️⬅️⬅️👈👈👈👈🔚🔚🔚
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