Warning 2022! Elon Musk & NASA seriously Warning "A MASSIVE ASTEROID" about to crush the Earth

asteroids rattling around Earth's neighborhood of space have always been a big concern as the recent film don't look up showed there's nothing more terrifying than a monster Space Rock hurdling towards the Earth both musk and NASA previously have given terrifying warnings about a massive asteroid that is about to crush the Earth so how worried should we really be and what would happen if such an object actually collides with us let's find out in today's episode of great SpaceX the year 2022 has begun with NASA warning the world about the potentially hazardous asteroids heading for earth the agency has reported that as many as five asteroids are charging towards our planet this month but most people are indifferent due to the small size of said asteroids that are comparable to a bus or a house however there are millions of asteroids ranging in size from hundreds of miles to several feet across that could be dangerous many have hit Earth in the past and more will crash into our planet in the future according to Nancy shabo a chief planetary scientist at John's Hopkins University's Applied Physics laboratory there are about 25,000 neear asteroids at least 500 ft wide that could be devastating if they crash into Earth We're actually not talking Global Extinction event but Regional Devastation on the area that could wipe out a city or even a small state and so it is a real concern it is a real threat to give you an idea of how serious it is let's take a look at apus this asteroid has sat at the top of the European space agency's impact risk list of phas or potentially hazardous asteroids and NASA's Century risk table for 17 years discovered back in 2004 apus is an oton asteroid about 370 M wide that orbits the Sun every 324 days and comes close to Earth every decade or so it gained notoriety when early observations suggested it might strike Earth in 2029 on Friday April 13th Friday the 13th 2029 this object will pass within just 31,000 km of our home planet a distance that brings it closer than most geostationary satellites its close passage will be so bright that even around two billion people will be able to witness it with the naked eye but that just begs the question what if Aus hits Earth there isn't anything like this in the geological record of our planet other impacts have either been much larger such as the chickalo that wiped out Earth's large dinosaurs 66 million years ago or much smaller Garrett Collins a professor in the department of earth science and engineering at Imperial College of London United Kingdom estimates that if Aus were to strike Earth at 45,000 mph or 20 km per second or 20 km per second the average speed of asteroid impacts the energy released would be about 10 billion billion Jewels that's one oh but that's 19 zeros oh my God that's a lot there's too many zeros this is equivalent to the explosive yield of the global nuclear Arsenal about 100 times more than the energy of the Chell Banks meteor and a million times more energy than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima the worst case scenario for an impact this size would be if it were to occur close to a large population Center or near a heavily populated Coastline devastating consequences would arise from a number of secondary effects such as violent earthquakes intense thermal radiation and Atmospheric shock waves so basically a cataclysmic event but luckily this historic event won't be as severe as experts once thought observations of the asteroid apus in early March of last year enabled astronomers to conclude that apus has no chance of impacting Earth in the next 100 years despite that apus isn't the only neear asteroid through telescope lenses NASA has also managed to spot 27,32 three asteroids that could endanger the Earth just under 10,000 of these are 140 M or larger and 891 are more than a kilometer in size according to experts in the planetary defense field just such an object killed off most of the dinosaurs even spacex's CEO Elon Musk has also repeatedly expressed his concern about asteroids with the same goal of protecting the Earth from these dangers musk and NASA have joined hands to collaborate on the double asteroid redirection test or Dart Mission the first foray into planetary defense or as musk said Avenge the Dinosaurs the first ever planetary defense spacecraft launched the first time on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early November 24th 2021 from vandenbberg space force base in California dart's mission is doomed to spend less than a year in space and make a stunning exit by crashing all of its 550 kg in to an object called demoro which is a small moonlet orbiting its parent asteroid Deimos in September or October this year if all goes well it will give planetary defense Specialists their first real world data about deflecting space rocks then planetary Defenders can feed this data into the models that tell them just how big a spacecraft going just how fast might be enough to ward off an asteroid did that make sense any I don't know according to Brent Barbie an aerospace engineer at NASA's godded space flight center in Maryland the results from the dart Mission are going to be informing our hypothetical work on planetary defense going forward in numerous ways it's going to be affecting the way we think about planetary defense Mission design for many years to come because the kinetic impactor approach as Dart is only one technique that planetary defense Specialists consider for moving an asteroids path other options may be to use lasers a companion spacecrafts gravity or a nuclear explosion which option makes the most sense when needed will depend on the warning time Earth has and the size of the asteroid and sometimes a deflection will even require more than one Mission increasing the difficulty of the project so that spacecraft in a warehouse had better have a companion Dart is the start this is the first step compared to NASA musk has more foresight according to musk himself the best solution is to make humans a space fairing civilization and a multiplanetary species he dreams of cities on Mars he strongly believed that settling humans on other worlds such as Mars could preserve civilization if Earth were to experience a cataclysmic event such as a large asteroid impact and that's why SpaceX was born the ship which is currently undergoing final tests is preparing for launch in March of this year just as soon as the FAA makes its final assessment after several delays if Starship lives up to its billing we can develop more and more measures to protect Earth from incoming asteroids and I don't know about you but I feel like it's really worth it you know what I'm saying anyway that's all the information we have for you today if you enjoy what my team and I are doing and would like to continue supporting us in a huge way you can become a patron through our patreon Link in the description below and don't forget to tell us what you thought about today's content everyone's support 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