NASA expert revealed

NASA space explorer announced the time that five asteroids would fly over the Earth in the next year. Among them, an asteroid is likely to endanger us.

NASA space explorer announced the time that five asteroids would fly over the Earth in the next year. Among them, an asteroid is likely to endanger us.

Ron Baalke, NASA's space exploration expert (US Space and Aeronautics Agency), has published a list of five asteroids that are expected to fly over or even possibly collide with the Earth for a year. next.

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The schedule of "visiting" the Earth of large asteroids in the next year.

What makes scientists most concerned is the 2nd meeting on October 12, 2017 by TC4 asteroid even though only 12-27 meters in diameter, at the distance across the Earth by 0.15 times the distance from the Moon to Earth, but the possibility that it poses a danger to us is possible.

In the past, a meteorite with a diameter of ~ 17 meters, weighing nearly 10,000 tons, fell on Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013, injured more than 1,200 people, causing 3,000 buildings in six regional cities to be attacked by meteorites. damage.

Although this is a relatively small meteorite, it shows a great human inability to cope with natural disasters from the universe.

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The meteorite that falls on Earth will cause very serious consequences.(According to: Tech Insider).

Even the White House began to publish documents called "Strategies for preparing objects near the Earth".

In it, the White House strengthened the shortcomings and limited many facets of human defense with meteorites, thereby promoting the cooperation between countries to offset those limitations.

Dr. Joseph Nuth, a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Center, spoke at the annual meeting of the American Physical-Geographic Federation in December 2016.

"The biggest problem is that we cannot do anything to deal with asteroids or asteroids now if they crash into the Earth. These calamities are at the level of extinction, just like the cosmic disaster has ever been. destroy dinosaurs 65 million years ago ".

Update 17 December 2018
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