China wants to launch asteroid-deflecting rockets to save Earth from Armageddon

[admin]

Although the asteroid, Bennu, only has a 1-in-2700 chance of hitting Earth, scientists are taking the risk seriously.

China wants to launch asteroid-deflecting rockets to save Earth from Armageddon : Read more

 

[Lucille]

China should forget about this scheme. There are already reported that three red stars are coming. And they are big ones. Scientists want to know why they are red.

 

[Roj5]

There are already reported that three red stars are coming.

Would you plese share the source for this as I would be interested to read about it.

 

[Lucille]

Would you please share the source for this as I would be interested to read about it.

2 Red Objects Were Found in the Asteroid Belt. They Shouldn’t Be There. (Published 2021)

The space rocks may have come from beyond Neptune, and potentially offer hints at the chaos of the early solar system.

www.nytimes.com

Discovery of very red bodies in the asteroid belt that resemble ...
https://phys.org › Astronomy & Space › Astronomy


Two Bizarre red Asteroids Somehow Migrated From the ...
https://www.universetoday.com › two-bizarre-red-aster...


Actually there are two.

 

[Roj5]

Actually there are two.

Thanks, and interesting read but not stars and certainly not coming... The scientists know why they are red from the second link you provided (the first was a subscription one for me, so didnt access).

 

[Hayseed]

Why do you refer to them as stars? Do you believe that they just recently, moved in, and are on to our way?

Does this movement have other meaning?

 

[Hayseed]

I'm glad to hear this. We need to train and practice now, to see what it takes to do this. While we are practicing with this close stuff, we need to look out farther in greater detail. We need to paint and track all the specs in our system. We have the tech.

When we get the JWST up, the population of dark objects, might be worrisome.

 

[Roj5]

We need to paint and track all the specs in our system. We have the tech.

I am not convinced we have the tech?

The link below has the following quotes (not specifically in relation to what size can be tracked):

"the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics lost roughly 11 percent — or 900 near-Earth asteroids — of the over 17,000 candidates identified between 2013 and 2016 "

"Congress also asked NASA in 2005 to find at least 90 percent of potentially hazardous NEOs that are 140 m (460 feet) in size or larger. That's supposed to be finished by 2020 "

"the asteroid that broke up over without warning over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013 was roughly 56 feet (17 meters) across, shattering glass and injuring hundreds of people. In 1908, an estimated 130-foot (40-meter) object exploded over Siberia and flattened trees over 825 square miles (2,137 square kilometers) "

Asteroid Defense: Scanning the Sky for Threats From Space

NASA and other organizations do regular scans of the sky to catalog any small bodies that are at risk of crashing into our planet.

www.space.com