LENGKONG, AYOBANDUNG.COM – Astronomer Swinburne and Director of the Institute of Technology and Space Industry Professor Alan Duffy said it was dangerous if humans tried gazing at the meteor as it heads towards Earth. He recommends not to do that.
“My best advice is don’t stare at asteroids although that’s hard to do because there’s the brightness of the burning objects in the atmosphere,” Duffy said on the I’ve Got News For You podcast.
Condition danger of humans staring at asteroids this very bright, will cause retinal damage. That’s what happened to people in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
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The last large space rock to enter Earth was the Chelyabinsk Meteor, which burned over Russia in February 2013. The light from the meteor is slightly brighter than the sun and is visible up to 100 kilometers away.
Quoted Republika.co.id, the American Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has now embarked on a mission that could prevent a similar situation as in Chelyabinsk. NASA will fire explosive-laden missiles at large asteroids to see if they can bring them down.
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Reported by News.com.au, Friday (26/11), NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission fired a SpaceX rocket on November 24 with a missile that is expected to hit Dimorphos in September 2022. However, Duffy said there should be no major concerns about a giant space rock that crashed into Earth.
“Asteroids are a problem, like Dimorphos’s size is about 160 meters. It’s known as a city killer that can basically destroy an entire metropolitan area. Those things will hit the earth about once every 1,000 or 2,000 years. So, it’s not a very rare event. by geological standards, but probably not something we would worry about,” he added.
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