Hours after NASA dunked the news of asteroid hitting the earth, asteroid smashes in the Caribbean

September 8, 2019

By: Talat Mohsin

The asteroid in question has been identified as the 2019 MO. It was shooting towards the earth at a speed of 14.9 km/sec and NASA didn’t know about it. NASA has admitted that when it came to know about the asteroid, it was too late to do anything about it. The width of the fireball has been approximated to be 16 feet. Luckily, because of its small size, the asteroid burned up in the atmosphere before reaching the earth’s surface. According to reports, the remnants of the asteroid broke up and scattered over the Caribbean.

In its defense, NASA has established that it had detected the asteroid but not taken any measures against it as it was sure the asteroid would do no harm. The space agency admitted that the rock was first spotted when it was 500,000 km from Earth, just before it hit the earth’s surface. To quote the agency-“ this was roughly equivalent of spotting something the size of gnat from a distance of 310 miles( 500 kilometers).

The asteroid entered the Caribbean in the evening of 22 June, and generated energy worth 3 to 5 thousand TNT, according to some astronomers.

NASA has also recently reported that on Friday, an asteroid roughly equivalent to the size of Eiffel tower would shoot past the earth. In July, it was reported that a mammoth space rock flew by “uncomfortable proximity” with the earth. Scientists feared that if it collided with the earth, it would be equal to the destruction caused by a very large nuclear weapon.

NASA’s shock claim reveals Apocalyptic risk of sudden meteor strike

Sugat Srivastava

May 6, 2019

Our Earth and a meteor is on a collision course and has the potential to be apocalyptic. This is not a fanatic speaking but claimed by NASA. It has issued a terrifying warning, proclaiming that the Earth is under threat of a meteor strike amid growing concerns of an imminent asteroid impact.

NASA’s chief scientist Jim Bridenstine issued one of the agency’s most alarming warnings yet – claiming that the Earth is “about to face its biggest threat from outer space”. His doom-laden remarks came during a conference organised to better equip humans with ways to defend the planet against a meteor strike.

This week scientists from around the world have been meeting at the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference in College Park, Maryland. The exercise has become a regular event among the international community of “planetary defense” experts.

This year, the conference has been scrambling to develop methods of combating imminent asteroid impact, as well as emergency evacuation plans.

Popular television scientist Bill Nye also warned about the existential threat to humanity during the conference.

He told reporters: “The Earth is going to get hit with another big asteroid. The problem is, we don’t know when. It’s a very low probability in anyone’s lifetime, but it’s a very high-consequence event. If it happens, it would be like control-alt-delete for everything.”

NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green echoed Bill Nye’s remarks: “It’s not a matter of if; it’s only a matter of when.”

During a role-playing simulation exercise, NASA scientists tried and failed to stop a meteor crashing into the earth – despite being given eight years to prepare in the simulation.

In this scenario, the meteor was heading for New York City, which was eventually forced to evacuate under the simulation scenario.

The asteroid blast destroyed everything within a 15 kilometer “unsurvivable” with an energy 1,000 greater than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

NASA is currently working with Elon Musk’s Space X company to develop a Double Asteroid Redirection Test in a bid to stop a future collision. It seems like they are the last hope for the earth’s survival if the threat proves to be true.

Tag: Asteroid

Hours after NASA dunked the news of asteroid hitting the earth, asteroid smashes in the Caribbean

NASA’s shock claim reveals Apocalyptic risk of sudden meteor strike