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discovered on the 21st of this month.
January.
Today is January 25, 2023 may impact our Earth.
NASA is saying that it is about
84ft across and is a stony asteroid.
It's going to be below where
our lowest satellites are flying.
So that would probably be an area where starlink
satellites are at the gravity of the Earth.
Very well could pull it in for an impact.
And the question comes up what type
of damage would this asteroid do?
It's called 2023 Bu and it's flying at
a speed of about 5359 kilometres per hour.
You have to remember too, the
majority of the Earth is water.
So the impact to a populated area is slim.
It could burn up as it goes through our
Earth's atmosphere or it could pass over the Earth
without doing any harm to our planet.
So going to Neilfun asteroidlauncher, I
thought I would do a scenario.
If it hit Washington DC.
I set it for an iron asteroid.
I don't know if it's iron or if it's
a stone asteroid, but let's just do iron asteroid.
90ft across going at 5000 miles
an hour is actually going faster.
Maybe I can change that.
So I put it at 6000 miles an
hour because it's traveling faster than that.
And impact angle at about 45 degrees.
Let me pull this over and then we'll
launch the asteroid and we'll put it here.
So it says it would have a
0ft of crater on the sea floor.
Maybe because of the angle of the impact.
The impact would create 112 foot tall tsunami.
Your asteroid impacted the water at 5006.
It's equivalent to 29 TNT.
It says asteroid of this size happens
on average about every nine years.
And then we got a shockwave.
I guess I can bring it out
to see what the shockwave would be.
Let me bring this out.
Okay.
There we go.
The shockwave.
676 people would die from the shockwave.
Anyone within 1948ft would likely receive lung damage.
Anyone within 2535ft would likely
have ruptured ruptured eardrums.
Buildings with 0.85 miles would collapse.
Homes within 1.1 mile would collapse.
Let me bring this over.
Peak wind velocity, okay.
4947 people would die from the wind blast.
Let's close that out.
When within 1314ft, it would be
faster than the storms on Jupiter.
Homes within 2145ft would be completely leveled.
Within zero point 75 miles, it would feel
like being inside an EF five tornado.
Nearly all trees within one and a
half miles would be knocked down.
All right, we'll do a stone asteroid.
Let's see.
We'll go back to Washington.
Okay, let me bring it over here and just pick a spot.
Alright. Right there.
And we'll launch it airburst.
Okay.
Your asteroid blew up at 7.3 miles above the water.
The explosion was equivalent to 17 kilotons of TNT.
An impact of this hot size happens every five years.
So if it's an air burst yeah, there'd be
a lot of little particles that the asteroid hunters
can go out and make a fortune on.
Now you can go to the
site, which is the Virtualtlescope EU.
And it says here that the near Earth asteroid
23 20 Bu will have an extremely close but
safe encounter, with us coming at least at less
than 10 km from the Earth center.
See, it's not the crust of
the Earth from the Earth center.
I have to refresh it about
25% of the geostationary satellite distance.
The virtual telescope project will show it to
you live and you can go there.
I don't know if they charge you for this or not.
Let me click on it and see what happens.
Where is it at right now?
Oh, there it is right there.
It can only get it so close to
us, so get your hard hats out.
Yeah, watch the skies.
It's supposed to be for time.
It will be at about 04:17 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time or 20 117 GMT,
2178 miles above the Earth surface.
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