Scientists ‘100 percent Certain’ Killer Asteroid WILL hit Earth

Written by www.express.co.uk on April 30, 2018. Posted in Current News

Scientists at the B612 Foundation, based in the US, are “100 percent certain” that the rogue space rocks will smash into Earth. Only 18,000 asteroids are tracked globally, with the majority not even monitored, according to Australian site News.com.au.

The shock revelations have sparked fears that asteroids could end life on Earth. Danica Remy, president of the B612 Foundation, warned that operational telescopes can only pick up a small number of asteroids. She said:

“The telescopes’ field of view is very small and the sky is very big.We can currently determine in advance if one of the 18,000 asteroids we have observed is going to hit us. But we’d only know if one of the several million we haven’t observed is on a trajectory for Earth if a land-based telescope observed it. It might be picked but it’s more likely it wouldn’t and that we’d first find out about it on impact.”

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Millions of asteroids are hurtling towards the Earth undetected

The first asteroid was Ceres, discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801. There are currently over 600,000 known asteroids in our solar system. Most asteroids are found orbiting in the Asteroid Belt, a series of rings located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

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There are Millions of Asteroids in the solar system, usually found in the Asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, however those in that pass the Earth are called Near-Earth objects. Danica Remy:

“It’s 100 percent certain we’ll be hit, but we’re not 100 percent certain when. The thing that’s really most important is we need a comprehensive map showing the location, features and routes to all of these asteroids so we can defend ourselves. Asteroids don’t care where they hit. It could be Australia, Japan, or Columbus, Ohio. It’s really a global issue.”

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The news has sparked fears that asteroids could end life on Earth. Earlier this month, NASA was forced to admit there are thousands of potentially deadly asteroids that have not yet been detected.

US politicians tasked the space agency with spotting 90 percent of all near-Earth asteroids (NEOs) bigger than 460 feet by 2020. But NASA admitted only a third of such objects are being tracked by the agency.

To track more of these potentially dangerous flying objects, NASA would need a dedicated space telescope for such missions.

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Robert Beatty

May 1, 2018 at 5:47 pm | #

I note from the press release “Asteroids don’t care where they hit. It could be Australia, Japan, or Columbus, Ohio. It’s really a global issue.” My view is that a far more dangerous impact occurs when an asteroid hits the sea. My work on this is available at http://bosmin.com/SeaChange.pdf

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- jerry krause
  
  May 1, 2018 at 7:59 pm | #
  
  Hi Robert,
  
  It seems I have read about a large crater in Australia. If so, how large was the proposed body which caused it? Also, it seems I have also read about the possibility of such in Siberia. If so, how large was this body?
  
  Have a good day, Jerry
  
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Robert Beatty

May 1, 2018 at 10:09 pm | #

Hi Jerry.
When an asteroid hits sea water the bicarbonate ion releases CO2 due to the rise in temperature. The heavy gas floods around the world in stifling concentrations suffocation air breathing animals living at low altitudes. In asteroid impact terms, a cylinder of sea water 1.5 km deep and 300 km diameter, with ocean temperature raising from 5 oC to above 100 oC would generate a lethal 4% concentration of CO2 gas at ground level, guarantying nobody will have a nice day.

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Panic Stricken

May 1, 2018 at 11:43 pm | #

How will this affect Man-Made Global Warming which is killing billions of humans right now?

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