ANDIn many Hollywood movies, we have witnessed the destruction of the Earth due to a gigantic meteorite that would create a real Armageddon at a global level.
In the POTseveral astronomers created a hypothetical scenario and a simulation, in which several experts attempted to plan an asteroid that has a 72% chance of hitting the Earth in just 14 yearsreported The Post.
After posing a theoretical timeline to a group of nearly 100 government representatives in April, NASA discovered that the best plan they had come up with to counter the horrendous doomsday scenario had several “high-level gaps,” according to its presentation.
“The uncertainties in these initial conditions for the exercise allowed participants to consider a particularly challenging set of circumstances,” he said in a news release. Lindley Johnson, planetary defense officer emeritus at NASA Headquartersin Washington.
The impact of a large asteroid is potentially the only natural disaster that humanity has the technology to predict years in advance and take steps to prevent.
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In the exercise, the sizes of the asteroids ranged between 60 and 800 metersbeing the most probable size between 100 and 320 meters.
To complicate the scenario, scientists said that the approaching asteroid would pass behind the sunmaking it impossible to observe it from Earth for at least seven months.
The experiment was the first to use data from the mission NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)the first technology to defend the Earth against possible asteroid impacts.
The POT points out in its statement that applying this technology to a real threat will require “many years of advance planning.”
However, the test served as a way for the agency to gauge readiness for a potential asteroid threat.
“These results will help shape future exercises and studies to ensure NASA and other government agencies continue to improve planetary defense readiness,” Johnson said.
