Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
National Institute of Aeronautics and Space Research (EIGHT) Rhorom Priyatikanto said the world’s astonomists had created a mitigation scenario if an asteroid with a diameter of more than 140 meters was about to hit Earth.
Rhorom explained that at least twice a week there were asteroids hitting Earth’s atmosphere which later became meteors. Meteors are mostly small, called the average diameter of 50 cm, and rarely are very large.
“For the case of an asteroid measuring more than 140 meters that is potentially catastrophic, astronomers have formulated a mitigation scenario,” he said. CNNIndonesia.com, Thursday (18/3).
The mitigation scenario, he said, includes intensive monitoring to the mission of deflecting the trajectory of the celestial body. A number of mitigation-related technologies are currently being tested by space agencies, one of which is the United States Space Agency (NASA).
According to Rhorom, people do not need to worry about the dangers caused by meteors because they are generally relatively small in size and are likely to burn out in the atmosphere before reaching the earth’s surface. For example, what happened at Pagimana Beach, Pagimana District, Binggai Regency, Central Sulawesi on Tuesday (16/3).
Even so, it is said that there are very large meteor events that occur on average once every 10 thousand years.
“Mitigation measures have been designed for events that occur on average once every 10 thousand years,” said Rhorom.
(can/fea)
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