Post by red on Dec 24, 2005 21:06:36 GMT -8
Astronomers are desperately trying to get world governments to take them seriously in order to come up with a way to divert an incoming asteroid which could cause massive destruction on Earth in a few decades.
Scientists have been monitoring a 390 metre wide asteroid named Apophis which may very well be on a collision course with our planet in 2036. They estimate that the asteroid would cause destruction 100,000 times greater than the nuclear blast over Hiroshima. According to people who claim to know these things, objects large enough to cause mass extinctions hit the Earth every hundred million years, and we are overdue for one now!
It's called Apophis. It's 390m wide. And it could hit Earth in 31 years time
Scientists have been monitoring a 390 metre wide asteroid named Apophis which may very well be on a collision course with our planet in 2036. They estimate that the asteroid would cause destruction 100,000 times greater than the nuclear blast over Hiroshima. According to people who claim to know these things, objects large enough to cause mass extinctions hit the Earth every hundred million years, and we are overdue for one now!
It's called Apophis. It's 390m wide. And it could hit Earth in 31 years time