Thursday, 5 September 2024

Can we spot every incoming asteroid before they hit Earth?

 


Image courtesy of Allan Madelar/Facebook

Joel Kontinen

News of the asteroid 2024 RW1 impacting near the Philippines may have come as a shock this week, but space agencies and astronomers around the world are keeping an eye out to protect us.

Can we spot the asteroids that come to Earth, just as the asteroid that according to evolutionists took off the dinosaurs many years ago, or the many that have reached Earth in the past or the one that is promised  in the book of Revelation?

“The surprise discovery of asteroid 2024 RW1, mere hours before it hit Earth harmlessly this week, may have you wondering whether we are at risk of larger space rocks coming out of nowhere and wreaking devastation. Thankfully, our ability to track asteroids is on the rise, even if we can’t catch them all.

“We believe we know more than 90 per cent of the asteroids that are about one kilometre in size, where one kilometre is considered, not a planet killer, but something that would destroy a whole region or a whole continent,” says Ian Carnelli.

Source: 

Matthew Sparkes 2024. Can we spot every incoming asteroid before they hit Earth? | New Scientist 5 September.