Recently, different theories began to spread regarding a possible apocalypse and even some news assured that the NASA had “set a date to end of the earth”, for this Friday May 6th.
The above, because the asteroid 2009 JF1 would impact our planet and that it was supposedly classified as potentially dangerous by the space agency; however, the rumors are false.
Don’t make plans for this weekend????
This Friday an asteroid will hit Earth ☄ pic.twitter.com/gJK9kOEUOJ– Vega (@Vegasaez_) May 4, 2022
Have you already prayed to the asteroid so that it does destroy us on May 6?
– gustavo (@biciclothymia) May 2, 2022
This is because NASA has not issued a risk alert for this asteroid, which is not part of the dangerous Objects, according to the European Space Agency (ESA).
This explains that initially the 2009 JF1 did enter the top ten of risky objects, but following the corresponding analyzes it left the list, since it does not have the dimensions to consider it dangerous and now it is cataloged within the bodies that are observed on a daily basis.
“It is a small object, just a few 10 metros in diameter, so the possible impact is not of great concern”, says the ESA, according to the newspaper La Jornada.
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For their part, the celestial bodies that do come to be considered dangerous objects are asteroids with a diameter of between 30 and 100 meters, for which the 10 meters of 2009 JF1 no generate concern.
“Is a asteroid pretty standard. When there is an object that we consider worth informing the public regarding, we include it in a document,” says Detlef Koschny, a scientist at the Planetary Defense Office, according to Very Interesting.
In addition to this, it is very unlikely that it will impact the Earth, since the possibilities are 1 in 3,800 and if it were to collide with our planet, the asteroid would would disintegrate upon entering the atmosphere.
Therefore, it is not possible that the world will end following the collision with the asteroid, so you can be calm, since the Earth will not be destroyed this May 6th.
