Image courtesy of Shutterstock..
Joel Kontinen
A 60 meters or 200 foot wide asteroid sailed past our planet on July 13,
traveling at an estimated 86,000 km/h or 53,000 mph, according to NASA. However,
because the rock flew toward Earth from the direction of the sun, our star's glare
blinded telescopes to the asteroid's approach until long after it had passed.
In 2013, a roughly 59-foot-long (18 m) asteroid followed a similar path through the sun's glare and went undetected before exploding in the sky over Chelyabinsk,Russia.
A fireball could also have detonated over the ancient Middle Eastern city of Tall el-Hamman or Sodom around 3,600 years ago. It's possible that the explosion, which was roughly 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, set the city instantly ablaze before levelling it with a powerful shockwave, killing all of its inhabitants
That why the biblical Testament is always correct.
Source:
Specktor, Brandon. 2023. A skyscraper-size asteroid flew closer to Earth than the moon — and scientists didn't notice until 2 days later. Live Science 20 July.
Posts
