2023-09-21 12:45:00
A team of scientists from the United States National Space and Aviation Administration or ‘NASA’ has revealed a prediction regarding the asteroid ‘Bennu’ that there is a chance that it will hit Earth in the next 159 years and may cause damage. wide area It is comparable to the size of the state of Texas. It is the second largest state in the United States, with an area of nearly 700,000 square kilometers. The orbit of the asteroid Bennu It comes very close to Earth every six years, and a team has been set up to keep an eye on its movements since 1999, the year it was first discovered. The years when asteroid Bennu came closest to Earth were 1999, 2005, and 2011. Pictures of asteroid Bennu and the area where samples were collected for study, however, the team of scientists predict that on September 25 . 2678 This asteroid will pass by Earth and there is little chance of it falling into the area known as Gravitational keyhole, which is a hole or point where Earth’s gravity affects the orbit of an extraterrestrial object. Or it may cause the orbit to deviate. The NASA team expects that if Bennu’s orbit is affected this time It is possible that Will cause it to move along a new orbit and will collide with Earth in 2725. A report from the team collecting data from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft states that there is a 1 in 2,700 or 0.037% chance that asteroid Bennu will hit Earth in On September 24, 2725, this asteroid is approximately 1/3 mile wide, or regarding 500 meters, if it hits the Earth. It would release energy equivalent to 22 atomic bombs. Yet it would be only a fraction of the energy released when a 6-mile (9.6 km) asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago and caused the dinosaurs to become extinct. All source: nypost.com Image credit: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
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