Is Vegas taking odds on this?
Whoever survives and makes it to The Golden Nugget first wins all the Gold or something?
A rock without a name…
NEO
Near Earth Asteroid
Notable Near Earth Object near misses
One of the closest recorded encounters between a natural object and the Earth took place in November 2020, when an asteroid named 2020 VT4 came as close as 383 km to the Earth's surface.
Another close encounter happened on 31 March 2004, when Meteoroid 2004 FU162 passed just 6500 km above the ground. 2004 FU162 is only 10m across, so if it had collided with the Earth it would almost certainly have exploded harmlessly in the upper atmosphere.
In May 1996, 1996 JA1 passed the Earth at a distance of 450,000 km - or about as far away as the Moon.
Wonder if there are any books of knowledge about how humans survived the last major asteroid impact and the subsequent climate change?
Bet is was drastic measures
The will to survive in a cycle of death…
The Survivors must've been tough
The Double Impact Crater in Canada; Clearwater Craters
One of the most spectacular impact craters on the planet is located within Northern Quebec in Canada. The area contains two immediately adjacent impact craters which are known as double craters. These impact craters each measure more than 20 kilometers or 13 miles wide and occur within a remote section of tundra. Known as the Clearwater Craters, they formed when two separate asteroids slammed into the planet more than 250 million years ago. This video will discuss how these ancient impact craters formed, and how frequently similar impacts occur on the planet. This video was made by a geologist who is based in Arizona.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTE2LmziZ30
The Impact Crater in Canada; Pingualuit Crater
One of the most spectacular impact craters on the planet is located within Northern Quebec within Canada. The impact crater in question measures more than 3 kilometers or 2 miles wide and occurs within a remote section of tundra. The impact crater in question is called Pingualuit Crater, which formed from a massive asteroid slammed into the planet approximately 1 million years ago. This video will discuss how this ancient impact crater formed, and how frequently similar impacts occur on the planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Li775uOnE
The Impact Crater in Utah; Upheaval Dome
One of the most spectacular impact craters on the planet is located west of Moab within the state of Utah. The impact crater in question measures more than 6 miles or 10 kilometers wide and occurs within Canyonlands National Park. The impact crater in question is called Upheaval Dome, which formed from a massive asteroid slammed into the planet several million years ago. This video will discuss how this ancient impact crater formed, and how frequently similar impacts occur on the planet. This video was made by a geologist who is based in Arizona.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1ORdFb_fa4
The Impact Crater in Canada; Mistastin Crater
One of the most spectacular impact craters on the planet is located in part of Newfoundland and Labrador within Canada. The impact crater in question is oblong, measuring 31 kilometers long and 26 kilometers wide. It is Located within a remote section of forest, the impact crater in question is called Mistastin Crater, which formed from a massive asteroid slammed into the planet more than 35 million years ago. This video will discuss how this ancient impact crater formed, and how frequently similar impacts occur on the planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIrr4yl9zOg
The Largest Impact Crater on the Planet; Hidden in Antarctica & 300 Miles Wide
Hidden under ice in Antarctica is a massive 300 mile or 480 kilometer wide impact crater. Although its existence is still not definitively proven, more evidence has recently suggested that Earth's largest remaining impact crater does truly exist here. What makes this all the more interesting is this feature known as the Wilkes Land Crater is located on the exact opposite side of the planet called an antipode to where the Siberian Traps erupted 252 million years ago. Since the Siberian Traps caused the Permian Triassic Extinction event, the question must be asked if this impact crater with an unknown age generated the Siberian Traps, thus meaning this mass extinction was caused by an impact event?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSO1haG2LPI
Asteroid Mystery Solved; The Largest Recent Impact Crater was Found
Approximately 790,000 years ago a cataclysm occurred which scattered large quantities of black glass across 4 continents, totaling 15% of the Earth's surface. This occurred due to an impact event, the largest known to occur in the last 2.5 million years. Yet, despite a long search, the source impact crater which was expected to be wider than 10 miles or 16 kilometers across could not be found. However, this has all changed as a large impact crater was recently discovered underneath a now dormant volcanic field in Laos, with this crater being the source of the Australasian tektites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_vlHjWpZ6E
Not the first time.
It happens.
Every 5K-500K/yr there's an Impact event big enough to cause some major blast damage to the hull.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_event
>Sky Event
>Trail left by the exploding Chelyabinsk meteor as it passed over the city.
>Aerial view of Barringer Crater in Arizona
"A Chinese record states that 10,000 people were killed in the 1490 Qingyang event with the deaths caused by a hail of "falling stones"; some astronomers hypothesize that this may describe an actual meteorite fall, although they find the number of deaths implausible."
Planetary Defense
What would we do if an NEO were found to be on a collision course with Earth? Could we deflect the asteroid to prevent the impact? In collaboration with Aerospace Corp., CNEOS has developed an NEO Deflection App, which examines the kinetic impactor deflection technique for a series of hypothetical impacting asteroids. This interactive page calculates the velocity changes necessary to deflect the asteroid away from Earth impact, as a function of parameters such as asteroid size and deflection time, and it allows the user to design a realistic deflection mission.
CNEOS has developed realistic impact scenarios for exercise carried out at recent Planetary Defense Conferences (PDCs). Our webpages provide the technical details of these intricate scenarios, including mock press releases and briefings that reveal challenging twists and turns in the stories. Initial details for the 2017 PDC impact scenario are also now available.
https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/pd/