Apophis meteorite will glide over Earth with a distance of

A meteorite of 370m in diameter will glide over the Earth on April 13, 2029, about 30,000km from us. For astronomical astronomy, this is a small distance like hair.

What happens if meteors hit Earth?

Delete the dinosaurs book

66 million years ago, a meteorite with a diameter of 14km, cruising at 64,000km / h crashed into shallow waters today, the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.

It created an explosion that was 7 billion times more powerful than the 15 kiloton bomb bomb (1 kiloton = 1,000 tons of TNT that the Americans threw at Hiroshima, Japan at the end of World War II).

The extinction of the dinosaurs that dominated the Earth 100 million years ago, and paved the way for the prehistoric ancestors of human mammals to "throne".

66 million years ago a meteorite explosion wiped out dinosaurs on Earth.

Some scientists argue that without this event, it is possible that dinosaurs will also evolve as humans and master the blue planet and not us today.

Until now, the risk of an asteroid hitting the Earth and destroying almost every creature is always present.

65,000 times stronger than nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima

This meteorite has a diameter of 370m, if it hits Earth, it will create a terrible explosion with the power of 65,000 times the Hiroshima bomb.

In the meteorite explosion on the Chelyabinsk airspace (Russia) in 2013, it crashed into the Earth atmosphere at speeds of up to 60,000km / h and exploded 29.7km above the ground.

The light of the explosion is higher than the sunlight, 100km away can be observed. With a size of only 20 meters, it weighs about 12,000 tons, which has inflicted casualties on more than 1,500 people there and damaged 7,200 houses of 6 neighboring cities.

Fortunately, due to the explosion at a relatively high altitude, its effect is not great, the range of extremely hot air and dust dispersal is only within 26km and shocks 2.7 Richter.

The risk of an asteroid hitting the Earth and destroying almost every creature is always present.

Explosions were calculated by scientists from about 400-500 kiloton, which is 26-33 times the Hiroshima nuclear bomb.

Terrible consequences

The most dangerous are meteorites of this size or larger at an altitude of less than 10km. Scientists have calculated that just a meteorite with an 18m diameter explosion at a low altitude, it will create a hurricane with wind speed of 1,600km / h, excessively tearing off the limbs. of the body and destruction of human organs, shedding all solid construction on its way.

In the meteorite explosion in the sky of Tunguska region (Russia) in 1908, it exploded from about 5-10km above the ground, destroying a vast area of ​​forest with an area of ​​2,150km ² and cutting down about 80 million forest trees.

As for meteorites large from a few hundred meters or more, it will not explode in the atmosphere but directly hit the Earth's surface.

A meteor with a diameter of 10 km will create an explosion with the same power as 1 billion nuclear bombs.

Imagine that if it is a larger meteorite with a diameter of a few tens of kilometers, how destructive its power will be. The explosion with the energy of millions of billions of tons of TNT will create storms spreading across continents, blowing up the atmosphere of tens of millions of tons of rock, smoke and dense ash.

If Apophis meteorite hits Earth, it will create a terrible explosion.

Following it were chain disasters such as tsunami up to 300m high, a 13-magnitude super-earthquake that spread everywhere and triggered the eruption of super volcanoes that increased the amount of thick ash. Filled with sulfuric acid covering the atmosphere and obscuring the sunlight.

Terrestrial habitats and oceans are destroyed by dust and toxic gases. The global air temperature is also reduced to 20 degrees Celsius, plants will die due to irreparable photosynthesis due to lack of sunlight, leading to the extinction of a range of animals, including humans.

Scientists and military powers such as the US and Russia have also studied solutions to detonate nuclear bombs to break down meteors or deviate from orbit to crash into the Earth, but all in theory.