Is Potentially Hazardous: Asteroid Approaching Earth?
Hello, readers, this blog is related to the asteroid approaching Earth, Many of us have an assumption that earth is gonna destroy soon but this is completely wrong information that is surrounding around us, so I took a bow and inlight such topics which create rumors all around us.
Under today's topic, I only cover that is really asteroid gonna strike earth on 29 April 2020 or it is just a rumor, so this point is completely wrong because our NASA scientists clarify this before that this asteroid is passing from 16 times farther than the moon which is approx four million miles away from our planet. There is some agencies or individuals who spread this nonsense all around and creates a misconception in the mind of others. Let me introduce you to an article by NASA so the things are more clear in your mind and I will attach a link below so that you can go through there article and know more about this asteroid.
Why NASA plans to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid?
An enormous asteroid—big enough to leave a six-mile-wide crater and darken the world with dust if it hit Earth—will harmlessly zip by our planet on April 29. The object, called 1998 OR2, is at least a mile wide, and while it poses no threat, it will pass within four million miles of our planet—close enough to be classified by NASA as “potentially hazardous,” because it will continue to make close passes to Earth in the future as both objects orbit the sun.
“It’s just a whopping big asteroid,” says Amy Mainzer of the University of Arizona, one of the planet’s leading scientists in asteroid detection and planetary defense. “It’s smaller than the thing thought to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, but it is easily capable of causing a lot of damage.”
An asteroid passing relatively close to Earth is more common than most people realize. Every year, dozens of asteroids that are big enough to cause regional devastation pass within five million miles of Earth—the cutoff for potentially hazardous asteroids. On average, one or two space rocks large enough to cataclysmically impact a continent pass by each year.
Earth will almost certainly confront a space rock large enough to obliterate a city, or worse, at some point in its future. If humans are still around when that day comes, it would be prudent to have a plan for protecting the planet. That’s why NASA is launching a spacecraft next year to conduct the first test of one promising strategy for stopping a killer asteroid: Hit it while it’s still far enough way to alter its course.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will slam a spacecraft into the smaller of two asteroids orbiting each other. Any change in the smaller object’s orbit will be easy to measure from Earth and will provide a good indicator of whether it has been successfully deflected.
“It’s an exciting time,” says Ed Lu, a retired NASA astronaut and founder of the B612 Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to asteroid detection and deflection. “I think DART’s going to be a tremendous demonstration.”
I hope this blog helps you to know better about what's going on around us and all of your doubts are clear related to this asteroid. Here, is the link to the article which is posted by
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