Summary:
Three asteroids have the potential to hit Earth in the next millennia. The first two possibilities are asteroids entitled 2009 FD and RQ36, and could hit Earth in between 2175 and 2199. The asteroid 2009 FD has a one in three-hundred and sixty-five chance of hitting, which doesn’t sound like a big deal, but it it does hit, our descendants will be in trouble. RQ36 has the likliness of hitting Earth by a one in one-thousand and seven-hundred chance, but even though it seems an unlikely amount, this asteroid will pass Earth seventy-eight times between years 2175 and 2199. Nicholas Deleon, who is a writer about science, says, “Something that size hitting the Earth at any sort of speed—and it would smash into the Earth at a remarkable rate of speed—would certainly cause destruction on a wide scale. Maybe even mass extinction.” The third and final possible asteroid to hit Earth is 1950 DA. It is predicted to possibly hit Earth around 2880, and is the most likely to hit our planet, with a one in three-hundred chance. However, by this time it could be possible we’d be so advanced that eliminating a threat such as this would be a …show more content…
NASA says, “If it is eventually decided 1950 DA needs to be diverted, the hundreds of years of warning could allow a method as simple as dusting the surface of the asteroid with chalk or charcoal, or perhaps white glass beads, or sending a solar sail spacecraft that ends by collapsing its reflective sail around the
Three asteroids have the potential to hit Earth in the next millennia. The first two possibilities are asteroids entitled 2009 FD and RQ36, and could hit Earth in between 2175 and 2199. The asteroid 2009 FD has a one in three-hundred and sixty-five chance of hitting, which doesn’t sound like a big deal, but it it does hit, our descendants will be in trouble. RQ36 has the likliness of hitting Earth by a one in one-thousand and seven-hundred chance, but even though it seems an unlikely amount, this asteroid will pass Earth seventy-eight times between years 2175 and 2199. Nicholas Deleon, who is a writer about science, says, “Something that size hitting the Earth at any sort of speed—and it would smash into the Earth at a remarkable rate of speed—would certainly cause destruction on a wide scale. Maybe even mass extinction.” The third and final possible asteroid to hit Earth is 1950 DA. It is predicted to possibly hit Earth around 2880, and is the most likely to hit our planet, with a one in three-hundred chance. However, by this time it could be possible we’d be so advanced that eliminating a threat such as this would be a …show more content…
NASA says, “If it is eventually decided 1950 DA needs to be diverted, the hundreds of years of warning could allow a method as simple as dusting the surface of the asteroid with chalk or charcoal, or perhaps white glass beads, or sending a solar sail spacecraft that ends by collapsing its reflective sail around the