All posts tagged: asteroids in the end times

NASA issues warning of a potential asteroid hit on March 11, 2023

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NASA is warning that an asteroid, with the power to wipe out a city, is potentially on a collision course with earth, Israel365 News reports. The asteroid known as 2005 DE224 is 177 feet (ca. 54 meters) in size and according to NASA’s calculations could possibly hit earth on March 11, 2023. If it misses, its circuitous route will bring it back into the earth’s orbit in 2028, 2029, 2030 and 2064. NASA notes that typically an asteroid of this size would burn up when it hits the earth’s atmosphere, but because this one is travelling so fast, 61,000 mph (ca. 98,170 km/h), it would instantly pass through and smash into our planet If DE224 does hit, it would produce a crater 1000 meters wide and have enough power to destroy a city. At this point, NASA suggests the chances are remote, putting it a one in 500,000. For the past several years, NASA has been tracking asteroids that have the potential to hit the earth, causing massive devastation. To fit that criterion, the asteroid …

Asteroid ‘2018 AH’ will pass earth on Dec 27, 2021

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The Jerusalem Post had an interesting article on 2018 AH, an asteroid that will pass earth on December 27, 2021. In astronomical terms, it is not huge. The asteroid is about 100 meters in size, the equivalent of the Washington Monument. And there is little chance of it hitting the earth, because it will cruise by at a safe distance of about 4.5 million kilometres. But this is not the first time 2018 AH made an appearance. As the name suggests, it zoomed by earth in 2018. But there were a couple of interesting things about that earlier visit that caught my attention. First it was only 296,758 kilometres away when it slipped by earth, which means it was nearly 100,000 kilometres closer to earth than the moon (384,000 kilometres). The second thing that concerned astronomers is that they had no idea it was coming. They only saw it two days after it had already zoomed by. Apparently, it had approached on a trajectory from the sun, making it impossible to see. So what would …

Another very close call

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It was a very close call, and was all the more onimous considering that the asteroid flew by on Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, if you are into that sort of thing. The Daily Mail reports that an asteroid, the size of a large bus (16 feet to 33 feet), missed earth by just 240 miles (386 km) last Friday. This is the closest an asteroid has come to hitting earth since astronomers started tracking what they describe as near earth objects. What is perhaps equally concerning is that astronomers who track asteroids had no idea this happened until Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System located on Mauna Loa, Hawaii saw it flying away the next day. However, even if it had hit earth, it is suspected the asteroid named 2020 VT4 would have burned up in the earth’s atmosphere. In order for an asteroid to reach earth and potentially cause damage, it’s needs to be at least 25 meters (82 feet) in size and for it to have a global impact the asteroid would need to …

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The silence was deafening, but not the explosion

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According to a report by BBC, around noon on December 18, 2018, a large meteor/small asteroid exploded over the Bering Strait. The Bering Strait is the body of water separating Russian and Alaska and the explosion took place closer to the Russian side near the Kamchatka Peninsula. It was first reported by the US Air Force who caught the explosion with a military satellite and passed the information on to NASA, that was given the responsibility of tracking near-Earth asteroids by the US government in 2005. However, this one had completely escaped NASA’s notice. The asteroid, that was several meters in size, was traveling at 20 miles (32kms) per second and exploded about 26 kilometers above the Bering Strait. Though it safely exploded over water, there was concern because it was near commercial airline routes. The explosion, estimated at 173 kilotons, was ten times the power of Hiroshima and was described as “historic” by Lindley Johnson who works with NASA’s planetary defense division responsible for tracking asteroids. Johnson said it was the the second largest …