Microscope image of a meteorite sample collected in
Sudan shows amphibole crystals, a unique feature, highlighted in orange.
Courtesy of NASA/USRA/Lunar and Planetary Institute.
The last book of the Bible, the Revelation speaks of
an object (probably an that asteroid) that is called Wormwood shakes the Earth in
a little while.
“The third angel
sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky
on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-- the name of the
star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died
from the waters that had become bitter.”
Now, science talks
about an asteroid that can hurl rocks at Earth. It has to do with the meteorite
that exploded over Sudan in 2008.
"NASA had spotted the
9-ton (8,200 kilograms), 13-foot (4 meters) meteor heading toward
the planet well before impact, and researchers showed up in the Sudanese desert
to collect an unusually rich haul of remains. Now, a new study of one of those
meteorites suggests that the meteor may have broken off of a giant asteroid —
one more or less the size of the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest object in the
asteroid belt."
"Some of these meteorites are dominated by minerals providing evidence for exposure to water at low temperatures and pressures," study co-author Vicky Hamilton, a planetary geologist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said in the statement. "The composition of other meteorites points to heating in the absence of water."
Now, Jupiter takes care of almost
all asteroids, so this one must be arranged by God.
The paper was published Dec. 21
in the journal Nature
Astronomy-
Source:
Letzter, Rafi. 2020. Mysterious asteroid the size of a dwarf planet is lurking in our solar system. Live Science 26 December
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