Do we have ways/plans to prevent the potential hit or is it a “we will see” thing?
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Zerush@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Jupiter has a huge influence in the Solarsystem, the big gravitation of Jupiter and also the Sun can deflect most of the asteroids and Comets from the Earth orbit, but in certain circumstances can do the opposite and launch objects into Earth’s orbit, depending on what angle they enter the system…
A good example is Apophis (∅~370 m), which is coming to visit us in 2029, although at quite a distance, but it will return in Abril 2036 and in this case, if it passes through a certain point there is a possibility that it will impact the Earth…
Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Zerush@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
There are several plans to avoid it, but it depends of several factors. We can avoid an impact if we know the exact position several Years before the supposed impact, if not, there is nothing we can do.
Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Childhood fear suddenly resurfaced.
exocrinous@startrek.website 5 months ago
Watch Don’t Look Up. It’s about an asteroid heading for earth in our current political climate
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Oh, ok, it will target New York, the movies were right!
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Zerush@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
The White House is also a good target.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 months ago
What a great & optimal design for actual humans to live and work - it would have been cheaper to make a square building with giant floors and a fraction of the windows (and far less natural light for inhabitants).
And H designs are just somehow aesthetically unpleasing to me personally (for real).
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Because I agree with those points I resigned it by flipping the edges:
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