topic of the day. Astronomers recently spotted a 50-meter-diameter asteroid that could crash to Earth on Valentine’s Day in 2046, but the chances of a collision are extremely slim.
The celestial object, named “2023 DW,” was first spotted by a small Chilean observatory on February 26. Should we be afraid of this asteroid? It should be noted that the probabilities in this area change visibly very quickly. Sunday, March 12th, the risk was getting closer and closer, we were talking about a 1 in 432 chance. And then overnight we went to a 1 in 1584 chance that this asteroid would land on our planet.
The catastrophic scenario of an asteroid threatening to hit the earth keeps coming back to the cinema. This was particularly the case in the film Don’t Look Up on Netflix. The feature film tells the story of two astronomers who have discovered a comet that is heading straight for Earth and which no one takes seriously. In this comedy, there is a billionaire who manages to dissuade the government from taking action by claiming that there are extremely valuable resources on this comet.
Another phenomenal film on the theme of Armageddon, directed by Michael Bay, and starring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck or even Liv Tyler. This time it’s an asteroid heading straight for Earth. The interesting thing about this film is that reality has recently joined fiction with NASA’s DART mission.
Why are we talking about this? How do you calculate the trajectory of an asteroid? Can the asteroid hit other objects on the way? Do asteroids often threaten to crash into Earth? What could happen if an asteroid crashes into Earth? Another mass extinction?
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