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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Space => Topic started by: Kamaji on September 20, 2023, 12:52:23 pm
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NASA predicts large asteroid could smash into Earth in 159 years
By Patrick Reilly
Published Sep. 19, 2023
NASA scientists have predicted there is a chance that a massive asteroid they have been tracking could smash into Earth in the year 2182, potentially devastating an area the size of Texas.
Bennu, a near-Earth object, orbits the Earth roughly every six years and has been on the space agency’s radar since 1999 when it was first discovered.
There have been three close encounters involving Bennu, in 1999, 2005 and 2011, scientists said.
On September 25, 2135, Bennu will make a close fly-by past Earth and has a miniscule chance of passing through a “gravitational keyhole” that would put the space rock on a collision course with the planet in 2182 — 159 years from now.
A paper from the OSIRIS-REx science team gives Bennu just a 1 in 2,700 chance — or 0.037% — of impacting Earth on September 24, 2182.
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Source: https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/nasa-predicts-large-asteroid-could-smash-into-earth-in-159-years/
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Marking the date on my calendar. Wouldn't want to miss it.
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Marking the date on my calendar. Wouldn't want to miss it.
Don't forget your hard hat!!!!
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SMOD?
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Don't forget your hard hat!!!!
I still have mine from our 1979 Sky Lab blow out!
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Can't it get here any sooner?
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Great, another excuse to increase my home and car insurance + the asteroid rider + the meteor rider + the comet rider.
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Marking the date on my calendar. Wouldn't want to miss it.
So should we party like it's 1999...if man is still alive? I mean aren't we all going to be dead from climate change , like 150 years by then?
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Can't it get here any sooner?
Impatient? :silly: