Suara.com – It’s twice as big as Big Ben, astronomers NASA warn asteroid giant towards Earth’s orbital path.
According to astronomers, if it hit Earth, it would have the equivalent of 77 megatons of TNT, 1.5 times more powerful than the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever tested.
The direction of the mega-asteroid is mapped by NASA’s list of all space debris.
Discovered by American astronomer Carolyn S. Shoemaker at the Palomar Observatory on November 28, 1994, the enormous space rock was named 1994 WR12.
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Reported page Mirror, Sunday (11/28/2021), for now, the 1994 WR12 is set to pass us at a distance of 3.8 million miles away on Monday (29/11/2021).
Experts say that the incoming asteroid will enter our atmosphere at some point which is unavoidable.
When that happens, Professor Alan Duffy, director of the Institute for Space Technology and Industry, urges the public not to be too curious.
“That’s actually what caused so many injuries in Chelyabinsk (meteor strike in Russia in 2013), people unreasonably looking up at this huge ball of fire burning in the sky, which was basically the same brightness as the Sun at that time. eventually erupts, which causes a lot of retinal damage, so make sure you don’t look at it properly,” he messaged I’ve Got News For You.
DART or Dual Asteroid Diversion Test is a pilot of new technology to prevent future asteroid collisions like the kind that wiped out the dinosaurs.
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This scheme is designed to “punch” an asteroid off course and is the first demonstration of the “kinetic impactor technique”.
Basically, a high-powered weapon designed to change the motion of an asteroid in space.
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