A massive asteroid rushing towards Earth’s orbital path, NASA warns
An asteroid, named 1994 WR12, is contending towards Earth’s route, says NASA. It’s much bigger than the Taj Mahal in India An asteroid is heading for the Earth’s orbital path, US space agency NASA has advised in its rearmost report on these dangerous space objects that it tracks on regular base. At 430ft, the asteroid is massive and has the implicit to initiate cataclysmic damage on whatever it crashes into. To put effects in perspective, the size of this asteroid is double the size of the Big Ben timepiece in London.UK.However, also that’s 240 bases high, If you compare with the Taj Mahal in India. – Easily, this is a big asteroid and giving it further power is the speed ta which it’s travelling.
In terms of damage that it may beget, also it measures up adeptly against some of the biggest nuclear losers exploded on Earth. This asteroid has the eventuality of producing 77 megatons of TNT-if it runs into commodity. The energy released will be a whopping1.5 times that of the biggest nuclear armament ever tested, Napoleon Bomba. It was exploded by Russia and the force was measured at times that of the snippet lemon dropped on Japanese megacity Hiroshima, during the Second World War.
Still, there’s no need to worry about all this doom and dusk script as it’s doubtful to be with this asteroid named 1994 WR12. The 1994 daises for the time it was discovered by US astronomer CarolynS. Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory (November 28, 1994). When the asteroid actually shoots by Earth, it’ll be3.8 million country miles down. It’ll pass by our earth as early as Monday Having said that, it’s also clear that, while utmost asteroids will pass by Earth, there will be some, that will hit it eventually in the future. It’s ineluctable. Asteroids have hit Earth preliminarily and the same will be again. The most- known is the bone that caused the extermination of the dinosaurs.
Having said that, humanity is preparing for that eventuality too. First is that NASA is constantly tracking all asteroids that can pose a trouble to Earth. And secondly, it has launched an experimental charge that has the task to redirect an asteroid from its course. It’ll give important information as to how humanity can deal with an asteroid that’s looking like it’ll crash into Earth.
Named the the Double Asteroid Redirection Test ( Outrage), the NASA spacecraft the size of a golf wain lifted off aboard a SpaceX rocket from California on November 23. It’ll reach the asteroid in September, 2022. The idea is to crash the spacecraft into the asteroid and redirect it from its path Follow HT Tech for the rearmost tech news and reviews, also keep up with us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. For our rearmost vids, subscribe to our YouTube channel
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