After discovering a doomsday asteroid was approaching Earth, world leaders created the COVID-19 pandemic in an effort to distract the world population and force everyone to spend time with their families during Earth's final days.
We've come across a number of "doomsday asteroid" rumors over the years. These claims typically stem from fearmongering headlines that make NASA's observations appear scarier than they actually are.
In early March 2020, for instance, tabloids published articles claiming that NASA had issued a warning about a large asteroid approaching Earth that could, it if hit, end civilization. These articles referenced a real asteroid, but they misrepresented NASA's observations as a "warning" and failed to mention in headlines how the space agency's data showed the asteroid passing Earth at a safe distance of a nearly 4 million miles (16 times farther than the moon).
Quite a lot has been going on:
Large asteroid to pass by Earth next month, NASA said it won't hit us
A large asteroid estimated to be between 1.1 and 2.5 miles wide is set to pass by Earth on April 29, but NASA reassures it's not expected to collide with our planet.
The asteroid was first discovered in 1998. The cosmic body will pass within 3,908,791 miles of Earth and it is moving at 19,461 miles per hour.
A flyby is expected for April 29 at about 1:56 a.m. according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies.
It will be the largest asteroid expected to zip by Earth within the next two months, but it's not the largest ever.
BEHOLD! Japan's Hayabusa2 probe left human imprints on ASTEROID SAND • The Register
Hayabusa2 unloaded the SCI with the intention of creating a crater we could study to figure out what asteroids are made of.
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Scientists drew that conclusion despite the SCI making a semi-circular crater, a shape attributed to the presence of a large boulder near the impact site. That rock, named Okamoto, was unmoved by the SCI. Another smaller rock, the five-metre boulder named Iijima, was moved by several metres.
Fluffiness recurs in the formal paper in which scientists have tried to interpret the patterns of material left behind by the impact – "ejecta" in crater-boffin language.
NASA asteroid probe will dodge building-size boulders to snatch sample of Bennu | Space
Snatching a piece of asteroid Bennu was supposed to be — well, not easy, but certainly manageable: scope out the space rock, find some flat spots, swoop down at one, come back home.
But when NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at Bennu in December 2018, the scientists and engineers on the mission realized that the asteroid was much, much rockier than they had expected. Like, boulders everywhere. Boulders as big as buildings. Boulders you do not want your fancy spacecraft to bang into.
While you're here, how about this:
What scientists learned after firing a small cannonball into a near-Earth asteroid - CNN
If coronavirus was an 'asteroid,' Trump should have prepared - Los Angeles Times
There are many professional and amateur astronomers who track countless asteroids in our solar system and beyond. We are never surprised by an asteroid that could threaten our survival.
The emergence of COVID-19 in China was first reported last December. In February, the president called the Democrats' criticism of his lack of preparation for the pandemic a "hoax." He and his supporters in conservative media dismissed the seriousness of the virus as it ravaged China, Italy and Iran.
A large asteroid ignored social distancing norms over the weekend - CNET
2020 FL2 was significantly bigger than most asteroids that pass within the moon's orbit, measuring at between 49 and 112 feet (15-34 meters) across. Normally the space rocks that come close are more like the size of a house appliance or a small vehicle and would likely burn up in our atmosphere if they did impact Earth.
But again, asteroid 2020 FL2 has already passed by us safely. So please go back to whatever you were doing, as long as you don't do it within 6 feet of me or anyone I know.
Simulation: Dust could have spread evenly over Earth after Chicxulub asteroid strike
To find the answer, Artemieva and Morgan embarked on a research mission that wound up spanning an entire decade. They studied asteroid strikes, large volcanic eruptions and even explosions, looking for a similar incident. But it was not until they analyzed the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 striking Jupiter that they found what they had hypothesized: an impact could result in dust spreading horizontally over a very widespread area.
They found that the reason the dust was able to spread was because it warmed the atmosphere once it arrived there, which created a conveyance system. With that discovery in hand, the researchers went back to their lab and created a simulation showing the dust from the Chicxulub strike warming the atmosphere. And just as happened on Jupiter, the simulation showed the dust being carried horizontally—in their case, all over the Earth—before it finally fell back to the ground in even
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