(ORDO NEWS) — Now the Internet is actively discussing the news about an asteroid that may fall to Earth on Valentine’s Day. According to forecasts, this will happen in 23 years.
NASA decided to clarify this situation. Experts say that the chances of asteroid 2023 DW colliding with our planet are less. The probability is 1 in 770. If you look at it as a percentage, it’s 99.9% that it will fly by.
The European Space Agency has made its calculations and claims that the probability is not even 1 in 770, but 1 in 1584. Therefore, scientists are sure that there will be no disaster.
Asteroid observations at NASA and other agencies are conducted very carefully. If a space stone approaches the Earth at a distance of 193 million km, it receives the status of a near-Earth asteroid.
If the distance is reduced to 7.5 million km, then the status is raised to potentially dangerous. Observations are conducted 24/7.
Now, NASA continues to be confident in its predictions and asks people not to panic about it. Nothing threatens the planet in the coming century.
If, after all, the experts gave an incorrect forecast, and there is a collision, then the Earth will face a catastrophe.
The size of the asteroid is significant, it is a 10 km stone. Approximately the same was the cause of the death of dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
Although it is quite possible that in 23 years scientists will find an effective way to destroy such asteroids in space.
In the USA, for example, possible options for action are already being developed. It is possible that it will be similar to the plot of the movie “Armageddon” with Bruce Willis.
That is, a spaceship will land on an asteroid, a group of people will plant powerful explosives there and blow it up.
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