¹³ and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. (Revelation 6:13 NASV)

The international space community is becoming increasingly concerned about the potential of an asteroid smashing into the earth and causing massive damage. This has led to the development of a worldwide system to track asteroids in our solar system and an even an attempt last year to actually deflect an asteroid off its trajectory by hitting it with a rocket.

Referred to as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), NASA successfully launched its Dart at Dimorphos, what was described as a moonlet, on September 26.

Though deemed a success a recent analysis of the impact is causing some second thoughts. It seems that the blast ejected huge junks off the moonlet and created a swarm of 37 boulders some up to 22 feet in size, the Daily Mail reports.

Travelling at 13,000 miles per hour, those 15′ or larger have the explosive power of the nuclear bomb that destroyed Hiroshima if they were to hit Earth.

The researchers described the after-effect as a ‘cloud of shrapnel expanding from a hand grenade.’ 

The only good news is that this cloud of intergalactic shrapnel is not on a collision course with earth, at this point anyway

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