Astronomy Science ~ More than 100 leading scientists and astronauts as Dr. Brian May and Chris Hadfield has signed a declaration requesting...
Astronomy Science ~ More than 100 leading scientists and astronauts as Dr. Brian May and Chris Hadfield has signed a declaration requesting to start the mission to protect humankind against outer space objects that could potentially put an end to the life of the earth.
June 30 was chosen because it coincided with the collapse of the largest recorded asteroid ever hit the earth in Tunguska, Siberia, in 1908. The Tunguska asteroid blow then cause catastrophic damage in a radius of 2,000 kilometers.
Inevitably, alarmed by the emergence of similar incidents in the future, scientists continually strive to improve the surveillance of asteroids that could potentially hit the earth. Until now, scientists have only about 10,000 asteroids data.
Whereas in outer space there are millions of asteroids that claimed can destroy the earth at any time. Not surprisingly an asteroid observer organization, B612, revealed when the earth is actually 10 times more potent hit by an asteroid than previously thought.
"The more we study the impact of an asteroid strike, the more obvious when people can live up to now thanks to a 'gift'," said Dr. Brian Maid, one of the scientists who will be attending in the asteroid conference next year.
Furthermore, scientists are in fact already have the technology to change the direction of the asteroid's in order to not hit the Earth. But it will be useless if they can not predict the arrival of an asteroid before.
"We have the technology to deflect the asteroid, but it will succeed only if we have many years before the asteroid was down to earth," said Dr. Ed Lu.
Therefore, scientists are poised to make a space telescope that is to oversee the asteroid. The telescope is scheduled to be placed in between the Earth and the planet Venus. But is that enough to stop a giant asteroids that will strike the Earth?
June 30 was chosen because it coincided with the collapse of the largest recorded asteroid ever hit the earth in Tunguska, Siberia, in 1908. The Tunguska asteroid blow then cause catastrophic damage in a radius of 2,000 kilometers.
Inevitably, alarmed by the emergence of similar incidents in the future, scientists continually strive to improve the surveillance of asteroids that could potentially hit the earth. Until now, scientists have only about 10,000 asteroids data.
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"The more we study the impact of an asteroid strike, the more obvious when people can live up to now thanks to a 'gift'," said Dr. Brian Maid, one of the scientists who will be attending in the asteroid conference next year.
Furthermore, scientists are in fact already have the technology to change the direction of the asteroid's in order to not hit the Earth. But it will be useless if they can not predict the arrival of an asteroid before.
"We have the technology to deflect the asteroid, but it will succeed only if we have many years before the asteroid was down to earth," said Dr. Ed Lu.
Therefore, scientists are poised to make a space telescope that is to oversee the asteroid. The telescope is scheduled to be placed in between the Earth and the planet Venus. But is that enough to stop a giant asteroids that will strike the Earth?
