every day space debris burns up in our atmosphere thermal explosions will destroy any space rock
with a diameter of about 10 meters in the Earth's atmosphere but even so some of these
space fragments do fall to Earth however according NASA a meteor struck the back end of a car in 1992
and falling space debris ultimaged a Connecticut dining room and an Alabama bedroom this Century
despite this no human being has been killed by a small space Rock in the last thousand years
what about the big ones some scientists believe we are due for an asteroid impact on the scale that
wiped out the dinosaurs as these occur once every 50 to 60 million years hello everyone
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urgent warning about a massive asteroid that might hit Earth on 2043 but before we begin
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videos and let's get started according to musk ancient craters on Earth's surface clearly show
that large objects have struck the planet in the past and there is no reason to believe that this
will not continue in the future the likelihood of an impact is proportional to the size of the
object the larger the Comet or asteroid the lower the likelihood because there are many more small
objects out there than large ones every day tons of debris much of it in the size of grains of
sand strike the Earth's atmosphere and burn up these are the shooting stars that are common at
night some larger rocks survive their fiery descent to the surface and are displayed in
museums as meteorites real threatening objects those large enough to cause Regional or Global
disaster if they Collide may appear once every few hundred thousand years but is it timing now
many scientists believe that an extremely large asteroid about six miles in diameter collided with
Earth 65 million years ago near Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula the impact caused devastating effects
across the entire planet including thick clouds of dust and Ash that prompted global temperatures
to plummet causing the dinosaurs and much of the rest of Earth's life to become extinct musk stated
countless pieces of debris litter the path Earth takes in its orbit around the sun apart from
dinosaurs we can locate the largest of these near-earth objects and calculate their orbits
to see if they will ever approach us several different telescopes are currently scanning
the sky for them on a regular and automatic basis the fear of massive asteroids impacts is similar
to the fear of flying though the likelihood of anything occurring is extremely low the Vivid
thought of such a catastrophic event occurring can cause people to magnify the likelihood in their
minds resulting in irrational fear fortunately current calculations show that the likelihood
of a civilization-ending asteroid impact such as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million
years ago is very low within our lifetimes but how do we know this and what is the likelihood
of a large meteor impact however according to musk the assertion is extremely questionable to begin
with when we're talking about likelihoods based on tens of millions of years a tiny fraction in
either direction is still hundreds of thousands if not millions of years furthermore the solar
system appears to be in a state of relative calm as the universe expands stars move further apart
resulting in fewer interactions between distant stars and space rocks and less of a chance that
a massive asteroid's trajectory will be altered to come hurtling towards us according to NASA the
likelihood of an asteroid capable of destroying a city striking Earth each year is 0.1 percent
if one of these does strike Earth there is a 70 chance it will land in the ocean and a 25 chance
it will land over an unpopulated area this is what happened in Russia just over a century
ago with the tunguska impact the chances of a 5 to 10 kilometer wide asteroid the size of which
wiped out the dinosaurs hitting Earth are almost negligible at .0001 percent NASA's near-earth
object program tracks space rocks in our galaxy it has created a risk table for every known
near-earth object NASA determines the likelihood of an impact with Earth over the next 100 years
for each of these Who are the masterminds behind the operation Century a highly automated Collision
monitoring computer system that scans the most recent list of asteroids near Earth performs the
calculations the Torino scale which ranges from 1 to 10 is used to assess the threat posed by
each individual asteroid at the moment nothing on the table is rated higher than one on the Torino
scale indicating that impacts are considered extremely unlikely furthermore new private
initiatives such as the b612 foundation aim to launch dedicated telescopes capable of analyzing
90 percent of all asteroids larger than 30 meters in diameter as these are capable of leveling large
areas musk explained as a point of comparison the meteor that struck Chely events Russia in 2013
causing millions of dollars in property damage and injuring over a thousand people was a relatively
small meteor at 15 meters in diameter the more money invested in building monitoring systems the
more accurate the readings will become all of this is not to dismiss the importance of investing in
planetary defense systems according to musk while NASA and other organizations monitor the skies
asteroids are understandably difficult to detect in fact just a day before flying between the Earth
and Moon last year a large asteroid known as 2019 OK was discovered even scarier than the
asteroid size and proximity it was the size of a football field and passed within 65 000 kilometers
of Earth's surface was the fact that it caught researchers off guard musk further explained
and as a scientist said according to internal NASA documents obtained by a source this one did
sneak up on us according to NASA if the asteroid had hit Earth the blast wave could have created
localized Devastation to an area roughly 50 miles across unfortunately some researchers claim that
planetary defense measures are underfunded NASA administrator Jim breidenstein has stated that
we must take asteroid threats seriously while MIT planetary scientist Richard binzel told BuzzFeed
news that it's no surprise an object like 2019 OK would catch us off guard our current asteroid
search capabilities are not up to the level where they should be while researchers mentioned that
we are in a relatively calm period in terms of asteroid impacts there is still the occasional
reminder that large impacts in our solar system are still possible in 1992 for example a massive
asteroid impact was observed on Jupiter if the Shoemaker Levy 9 asteroid had hit Earth
it would have caused a global atmospheric disaster similar to the one that wiped out the dinosaur's
65 million years ago Shoemaker Levy 9 was like a punch in the gut Heidi Hamill who led the Hubble
Space Telescope observations of the Comet said in a NASA blog post it really re-energized our
understanding of how critical it is to monitor our local neighborhood and understand the potential
for future impacts on Earth then there's 99942 Apophis a massive asteroid that will fly so
close to Earth in 2029 that its trajectory will be altered by our planet's gravitational pull
following the recent flyby of asteroid 2022 PC a 190 foot wide City killer on August 18 another
asteroid is on its way on August 20 asteroid 2022 QC also passed Earth this asteroid is part
of the Apollo group and was discovered recently relatively on August 6 2022 one orbit around the
sun takes 1 365 days interestingly according to Musk 2022 PC will come close to Earth in 2043
what can we do if a large asteroid is heading our way as the European Space Agency which is
a member of the international asteroid warning Network points out if we do detect an asteroid
on a collision course with Earth we have a number of options the most important factor would be how
quickly the asteroid was discovered while there is a very small but terrifying chance that one
will catch us off guard such as 2019 ok's close flyby which was detected only 24 hours
before it occurred today's technology allows us to detect Neo trajectories years in advance possible
Alternatives include space reconnaissance missions to gather data as well as nuclear impactors to try
to break up or deflect an asteroid's course into a safe trajectory meanwhile preparations
on the ground could necessitate the evacuation of entire cities and finally while asteroids
may not be at the top of the list of threats to Earth's civilization it is critical that we keep
track space rocks and understand how impacts may affect Earth in the future musk explained
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