/sci/ - Science & Math

Pray that it leaves no survivors.

Planetary Defense Group post doctorial scholar reveals plan to divert near-earth earthbound asteroids and comets
Kinetic impactor, nuclear deflection, and nuclear disruption are all options, expert reveals

https://www.intellihub.com/planetary-defense-group-post-doctorial-scholar-reveals-plan-to-divert-near-earth-earthbound-asteroids-and-comets/

Maybe just a few decades from now we'll have a security system able to detect and deviate it in time.
For now it depends on the dimension.
In case of a sizable impact in the oceans you can move the people from the coast to avoid the incoming tsunami.
It's difficult to predict where exactly on the surface is going to hit though.

>>11612113
Promptly die

>>11612113

Will the asteroid that's passing by today be visible by the naked eye, and if so what time will it bbe visible GMT?

>>11612113
just blame China

>>11612113
nuke it

>>11612113
>it isn't projected to happen any time soon
How about basically never? A space rock hitting the surface of Earth is extraordinarily rare. It has almost never happened. The vast majority of craters on Earth (and the on the Moon and other bodies in the solar system) are not from impacts. *

All bodies in space including asteroids are electrical in nature and electrically charged, and therefore they want to avoid one another. When they DO get too close however, they repel each other and/or discharge electrically. Comets and asteroids when they get too close to Earth break up violently due to the electrical stresses inside of them. The vast majority of space rocks when they've entered Earth's atmosphere have detonated from this build-up of electrical stress long before they hit the surface, and that's the few which even make it to Earth - most get destroyed long before they even get close to Earth due to the electric charge from the Sun overloading them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34wtt2EUToo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ce6Pk_0TNE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcNcGTerTfw

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwOAYhBuU3Uc0DbmSHvarcWh8__q41ugZ

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ All you need to know about comets and asteroids (they are the same thing, the only difference is their size). Third link is a massive playlist of highly enlightening information on the subject, all based on actual real science and observations. Suggest you scroll down to the bottom of the playlist and watch them from there, upwards.

-----------

* To learn about craters and why almost none are from impacts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ThZZPCMXNU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDhBaP7a37Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGKhrETwhl0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz0GhlVKQuk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5EjXhtKagg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeDIWaZ__o4

>>11612113
>it isn't projected to happen any time soon
How about basically never? A space rock hitting the surface of Earth is extraordinarily rare. It has almost never happened. The vast majority of craters on Earth (and on the Moon and other bodies in the solar system) are not from impacts. *

All bodies in space including asteroids are electrical in nature and electrically charged, and therefore they want to avoid one another. When they DO get too close however, they repel each other and/or discharge electrically. Comets and asteroids when they get too close to Earth break up violently due to the electrical stresses inside of them. The vast majority of space rocks when they've entered Earth's atmosphere have detonated from this build-up of electrical stress long before they hit the surface, and that's the few which even make it to Earth - most get destroyed long before they even get close to Earth due to the electric charge from the Sun overloading them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34wtt2EUToo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ce6Pk_0TNE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcNcGTerTfw

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwOAYhBuU3Uc0DbmSHvarcWh8__q41ugZ

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ All you need to know about comets and asteroids (they are the same thing, the only difference is their size). Third link is a massive playlist of highly enlightening information on the subject, all based on actual real science and observations. Suggest you scroll down to the bottom of the playlist and watch them from there, upwards.

-----------

* To learn about craters and why almost none are from impacts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ThZZPCMXNU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDhBaP7a37Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGKhrETwhl0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz0GhlVKQuk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5EjXhtKagg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeDIWaZ__o4

>hope it isn't going to hit my area
>hope it's small enough it matters where it hits
>if it's small enough to be survivable and leave a world worth surviving in I go bush before the mass panic makes roads unusable

>>11612677
>Will the asteroid that's passing by today be visible by the naked eye
Probably not. They're basically big rocks so not super reflective and if you could see it you would have heard about it with dozens of "How and where to see the asteroid!" clickbait headlines.

>>11612677
It might if it reacts electrically to the electric field put out by the sun. Many times asteroids/comets have suddenly lit up unexpectedly (to mainstream scientists that is) and become very bright and "large" looking due to this phenomenon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRRzyI-yRko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDa0Ax4TZlU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9HPVMw1IN0

>>11612113
SpaceX Starship + Space Telescope + Shaped Charge Nuke. We'll probably have an adequate detection network in about 50 years.

>>11613178
Mainly, all the big shit has been collected by planets their moons and the asteroid belts. We are in an era of stable celestial activity.

>>11613350
>big single mass impact vs space sand impact
I'm not sure which would be worse. Probably the space sand. That much material hitting the atmosphere will super heat the air and can bake everything to about 2-3 inches into the soil. Though, a similar thing happens when a big single mass impact occurs and splashes debris into the atmosphere. Though, in the latter scenario there will be less debris than the space sand and the impact will be in one location. Yet, there will be seismic activity with the large impact and its debris reentry will splash across the atmosphere all over the world, where the space sand would only hit one side of the planet.

So, I think not shooting the asteroid would be a bad thing over all.

>>11612113
Countries like America can't even deal with a little pandemic.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?