This Week, NASA Is Pretending An Asteroid Is On Its Way To Smack The Earth

in #nasa6 years ago

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Source: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/29/718296681/this-week-nasa-is-pretending-an-asteroid-is-on-its-way-to-smack-the-earth

The asteroid is in a horrible orbit and has a 1% chance of striking Earth in just eight years. And — thank goodness — it doesn't really exist.

It's a fictitious asteroid that's the focus of a realistic exercise devised for scientists and engineers from around the world who are attending the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference being held this week outside Washington, D.C.

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9/11 2027! Looks like a Californiaish asteroid strike.

Plenty of time.

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