#asteroid collision

TO ABSOLUTELY NO ONE'S SURPRISE, MOVIES ARE COMPLETE BULLSHIT, AND SCIENCE EXPLAINS WHY.

PIC(S) INFO: Mega spotlight on assorted illustrations of NEO impact collisions with planet Earth. Various artists.

OVERVIEW: "When an asteroid hits the middle of the ocean in Hollywood movies, it creates devastating waves that wipe out coastal cities. But new simulations reveal that real asteroids don't make such a splash. That's because the crash releases most of its energy hurling water up into the atmosphere, and very little on making waves.

"The folklore has been that tsunamis from impactors will be the danger," Galen Gisler, who studies the physics of geological processes at Los Alamos National Laboratory, said at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference last month in The Woodlands, Texas. (Gisler also presented the work at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting in December 2016.) He ran 3D simulations that modeled wave formation from falling rocks of various sizes, and found that the waves formed by smaller asteroids resemble landslide tsunamis on Earth.

-- SPACE.COM, "New Asteroid Study Suggests Hollywood Is Wrong About Ocean Impacts," by Nola Taylor Redd, published April 17, 2017

Asteroid ‘large enough to cause global effect’ to fly by Earth

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An asteroid “large enough to cause global effects,” will fly by Earth next month on April 29.

According to NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, the asteroid is called 52768 (1998 OR2) and it will pass within 3,908,791 miles of Earth, moving at 19,461 miles per hour.

Also read: Oldest known asteroid collision ended Earth’s ‘ice age’: Study

Its estimated timing is 4:56 am as per…

Students from Gujarat in India spot an asteroid heading towards Earth

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An asteroid which is slowly moving towards Earth was recently discovered by two Indian schoolgirls.

The asteroid in question is shifting its orbit, which will eventually cause it to potentially cross paths with our planet.

Also read: Astronaut shares picture of Hurricane Hanna from space leaving netizens in awe

10th Standard students Radhika Lakhani and Vaidehi Vekariya stumbled upon the…

Asteroid ‘large enough to cause global effect’ to fly by Earth

[ad_1]

An asteroid “large enough to cause global effects,” will fly by Earth next month on April 29.

According to NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, the asteroid is called 52768 (1998 OR2) and it will pass within 3,908,791 miles of Earth, moving at 19,461 miles per hour.

Also read: Oldest known asteroid collision ended Earth’s ‘ice age’: Study

Its estimated timing is 4:56 am as per…

Surviving an Impact from an asteroid in La Yacata

Asteroids hit the Earth all the time. Usually, they are little rocks and hardly anybody notices, however, it’s estimated that over the last 600 million years, the Earth has been struck by at least 60 asteroids with a diameter of 3 miles or more. There are at least 3 craters left from these mega-impacts that are linked to major…