Don't Look Up: Several Asteroids Are Heading Towards Earth – Dealing With Real-Life Threats to Our Planet
January 9, 2022
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Don't look now – but we are currently experiencing a rash of stories about a forthcoming global catastrophe
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Some UK newspapers have turned to Nostradamus, the 16th century astrologer. A couple ran stories
at the end of 2021 about 2022 being the year in which Nostradamus predicted that the world would end in a giant impact with a body from space. This hook has resulted in tabulations of objects that may (or, more likely, will not) come close to the Earth in 2022... We have already missed (or been missed by) the first two asteroids in this list (2021 YQ and 2021 YX) which hurtled by Earth on January 5 at distances of 1.3 and 2.4 million miles, respectively.
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There are a further three asteroids predicted to pass between 1 and 5 million miles from the Earth in the next few days, ranging in size from that of a car to that of the Statue of Liberty. The one that will get the closest will still be four times as far away as the Moon, so not exactly close calls... It is also very funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpmXyJrs7iU
Without giving away too many spoilers, the plot focuses around two astronomers (a graduate student and her professor) who discover a comet that will collide with Earth in six months' time... The Earth has been hit by large asteroids in the past – which is why there are no enormous dinosaurs roaming the planet today. And it is bombarded every day by tonnes of dust and meteorites.
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"Flying negroids"! You mean like this?
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