End Of The World on the 1st of February, 2019?
For the past few weeks I have continually received lots of chain mails warning that an asteroid labelled 2002 NT7 will put the Earth to an end on the 1st of February, 2019. That’s about 14 years later from now on.
Yes, I have heard about this news before, broadcasted all around the world when this asteroid that measures 1.24 miles across was discovered. The worse thing is that the asteroid was on the collision path with Earth, and both planetary objects will collide on the 1st of February, 2019.
However, recent onlie articles claim that the possibility of the asteroid smashing right into Earth has drastically declined. Experts from NASA predicted that there will be a 75,000km miss from the Earth’s outer most atmohsperic layer on the day labelled as “the end of Earth and mankind”.
Below is an example, taken from Planetary.org:
“We are still monitoring 2002 NT7, but it appears that the impact probability might have already started the typical, inexorable decline that we normally see in these cases,” says senior engineer, Steve Chesley, of NASA’s NEO program office at JPL. “We picked up more observations yesterday and ran them through the impact probability and risk scales and all have declined.”
Asteroid 2002 NT7 still tops the list of NASA/JPL NEO Impact Risks because of the low-probability Earth impact prediction for 2019. But Chesley and other asteroid experts assure that the sky is not falling, and the rock will, in all probability, at this stage, orbit safely on by come 2019. “While this prediction is of scientific interest, the probability of impact is just not large enough to warrant public concern,” reassures Chesley. “It is unusual, but it’s not anything that would deserve as much attention as it’s gotten.”
On the other hand, NASA experts rated the asteroid 2002 NT7 0.06 on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale. The image below is the scale.
The Torino Impact Scale
However, some astronomers think that although the asteroid 2002 NT&7 will miss Earth on the fateful 1st of Februaru 2019, it is still on the collision orbit with Earth. It will either near-miss or hit the Earth in 2035 or in 2051. But they do believe that the possibility of the asteroid hitting Earth is very minimal.
I really hope that the asteroid will miss Earth. By 2019 I am still 30 years old, and I might not have get married yet *oh dear*. Yup. That’s why I hope it doesn’t come right into our face.
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November 11th, 2005 at 1:55 pm
The purpose in life is not to get married. It’s to propagate your seed. Don’t have to be married to do that. Just grab somebody near you.
November 11th, 2005 at 7:30 pm
Okay anything.
November 11th, 2005 at 10:49 pm
Mib u dun need to make it sound so…..u get the image.Well if i does appear right into our face then consider liffe have been good to you if you survived the blast.Or if life had treated you badly and you died in the blast…consider how lucky you were to escape from life’s deadly grasps
November 12th, 2005 at 7:14 pm
As of 25 July 2002, the hazard rating on the Palermo scale had been lowered to -0.25. However, the discovery of an object with an initial hazard rating above 0.0 is still a significant event in the history of the NEO observation program.
On 1 August 2002, the object was removed from the list of objects that present a threat, at least for the next 100 years.
August 3rd, 2007 at 6:46 pm
i don’t that is true i know and i know that jesus is still their and will keep the christains save on that day
August 3rd, 2007 at 6:48 pm
hello again
April 16th, 2008 at 6:27 am
Armagedon get somebody out there to destroy it i’m scared of the world ending i dont intend to die at 28! It is also suppose to be ending 2012 by a big blob thing im scared. What if some of us die while others survive? how would the surviviors live??