Asteroid Strikes

[Turtle]

Seems our NEO thread has been devastatingly impacted by the new setup. Damn bad luck I suppose. 0.o Duck & cover.  :evil:

 

Research shows it’s ‘blind luck’ that asteroids haven’t destroyed a major city yet

 

Well, here’s something happy to think about as you head into the weekend. Phys.org brings us word that three former NASA astronauts are going to present new research next week showing that there have been 26 asteroid crashes since 2001 that have caused “atomic-bomb-scale explosions” that have fortunately been far away from major population centers. The research, which was conducted by the B612 Foundation, used data from a nuclear weapons warning network to measure the impact of major asteroid strikes on the Earth’s surface.

 

“This network has detected 26 multi-kiloton explosions since 2001, all of which are due to asteroid impacts,” explained B612 Foundation CEO Ed Lu, a physicist who worked at NASA from 1994 until 2007. “It shows that asteroid impacts are not rare but actually 3-10 times more common than we previously thought. ...

reference: http://bgr.com/2014/04/18/how-asteroids-could-destroy-the-earth/

[Gregb]

I think we'll see a strike within our lifetime. Might not be in a populated area though.

 

Here is the recent Reuters link to the main story on Killer Asteroids

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/22/us-space-asteroids-idUSBREA3L1O420140422