What’s so important about asteroid studies? This is not a typical question asked, but still it is very important. I think NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) should fund asteroid studies because we need safety for Earth, more resources, and the U.S. is very competitive with everything involving space and traveling, in order to learn. When we have the studies for asteroids it can help us learn both commonly and safety. Let's explore some of the reasons why NASA should fund asteroid studies. what are the dangers of asteroids and how can we stay safe from them?Everyone knows how important safety is for everyone and how we need to know certain things to be safe, but what if we didn’t have the information to know how to stay safe. In, Gravity Tractor as Asteroid Mover by Emily Sohn, it states, “A collision is inevitable. When the rocky object hit´s the planet, lot’s of people will die.” This is tied to, how would we stop this collision, or how could we stay safe? How do they expect us to be safe if we don´t know certain things. NASA should fund these asteroids to keep us safe, even though they burn up coming into our atmosphere sounds dangerous, it doesn't always have to be. Could these asteroids be …show more content…
These materials could be useful in a way, because we could be being introduced to new soil or rocks. In the article, Tunguska Meteor Impact, it states, “Thirty seven years after the Tunguska blast, branchless trees would be found at the site of another massive explosion…” This helps us prove that when the asteroid hits it will leave behind things that will stay there for a long time. The 2013 Budget Puts Brakes On Planet Probes say that NASA spends 11% on Planetary Science Research in, NASA’s 2013 Budget Puts Brakes On Planet Probes. This is way less than it should be, there should be more studying going into these asteroids to help us with our
about to take place. All a meteor is, is a chunk of rock of that is being
Asteroids are tiny, airless rocky worlds orbiting around the sun and most of them are too small to be called planets, yet, some asteroids are too big too not to be acknowledged and are known as planetoids or minor planets. The mass asteroids are puny but despite their size, asteroids can be deadly. The earth has been hit by many asteroids in the past and can potentially be hit by some again. That's one reason why scientists study asteroids and find ways to avoid them from hitting us or at least predict if they are coming.
The third inaccuracy I’m pointing out is that the big asteroid is preceded by lots of little ones which hit New York City, Paris, Shanghai, etc. It is possible for the Earth to be pelted by precursors of the main asteroid, hypothetically speaking, if the initial impact with the comet sent shrapnel flying. But that shrapnel would disintegrate quickly, and most likely by the time the shrapnel reaches the Earth, very little would be left. And another thing: why do movie asteroids only target big cities? I bet upstate New York got hit
Most meteors burn up when they enter Earth’s atmosphere. There are a few meteors however, that make it to the surface. The ones that make it to the ground are called meteorites.
actual impacts upon Earth are roughly one in a thousand of all the near-Earth asteroids, there are still
Over time, other scientists began finding iridium evidence at many different locations around the world that supported the Alvarez theory. In 1991, an immense meteor crater, about 110 miles in diameter, was discovered on the the Yucatán Peninsula. The crater even extended to the Gulf of Mexico. The Chicxulub Crater, as it was called, was named after a nearby village. Scientists believe the meteor that formed this massive crater was around 6 miles in diameter. It is also believed that it struck the earth at 40,000 miles per hour and released 2 million times more energy than the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated. This great impact would have caused so much heat that would have boiled the earth’s surface. The scorching temperatures would have caused wildfires throughout the globe and the Earth would turn into complete darkness because debris would have filled the sky. It is believed that mile-high tsunamis could have the momentum to cover the continents, which would drown multiple species of life. Massive shock waves would even have the power to trigger earthquakes and volcanic eruptions all over the planet.
According to Canadian researchers, hypothetically, it would take approximately 1,591,500,000 pounds of force to move the moon which I have calculated from the average mass, velocity, and time of impact of the asteroid that struck the moon, this asteroid would not have enough force. Once the asteroid hit the moon even with its apparent density it would not move the moon, it would only cause another crater on the moon’s surface, possibly deep or wide crater though. For the sake of this essay, let’s say it did move the moon and started the descent, the effects would not show on earth for a while, which brings me to my last
Everything is burned to a crisp. In addition, if we look at the quote from the book where the actual event takes place, we can read something that would happen if an asteroid hit the Earth. “A long shear of light and then a series of low concussions... He went into the bathroom and threw the light switch on, but the power was gone. At first, just as in the book, a bright light would be seen called “the shooting star effect”.
These are the reasons why I believe there should be more investment in space research and technology. It would be a time consuming and financially draining quest, but the pay off in new technology, applications, resources, and expansion opportunities make it a goal to strive for. As our rate of consumption of Earth’s natural resources continues to increase, it is imperative that we invest in the research of outer space as a possible solution to sustaining the human race.
He figures out which ones are coming our way, and whether or not they are a threat (Kluger 1). Astronomers estimate that one in a thousand asteroids that pass our Earth will hit us (Booth 98). This may not seem like very many, until you consider that we are hit with at least one basketball sized asteroid every day (Kluger 6). So what happens when our one sizeable asteroid a day ends up being the size of a mountain? Well, if it happened today, we would surely be dead.
The sounds of the news is constant for students trying to keep track of the meteor. More annoying than anything in college. The meteor will hit the school, so? It’s not an extinction level event...Ok, it might but I’m not running just yet we still have five months of school so that means by the last day of school it will hit.
This crater was estimated to be formed around one billion years ago and was expected to have ejected 250,000 cubic miles of material9 which is said by senior writer Mike Wall from space.com as “enough to fill the grand canyon 1,000 times over”15. Dawn’s imaging system revealed that Vesta is of the same geological makeup as 5% of the meteors found on Earth, referred to as HED (howardite-eucrite-diogenite) meteorites. Meaning that when this crater was formed billions of years ago some of the ejected rock smashed into Earth to become a part of our planet3,15. This is important because scientists now have a definitive connection between an inner terrestrial planet and the asteroid
Collisions with larger asteroids are rare, but smaller ones are more. numerous. The. It is estimated that a few asteroids with a diameter of 1 km 0.6 mile may collide with the Earth within a period of 1,000,000. years.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, (2012, April), Orbital Debris Quarterly News. Volume 16, Issue 2
Most people think that the costly downside to funding space exploration is a reason to avoid spending money on sciences and instead spend it on problems here on earth, but such funding for space exploration actually promotes economical as well as scientific benefits. Space exploration is an important expenditure for the high cost because of the potential for numerous benefits such as the possibility to find useful resources to cultivate, space exploration and satellites produce many thousands of jobs in our economy, and it creates and discovers newer and better technologies through research and development.