Year 2036 Aphopis Asteroid Will Hit Earth Doomsday And Possible Causes

Year 2036 Aphopis Asteroid Will Hit Earth Doomsday And Possible Causes

Year 2036 Aphopis Asteroid Will Hit Earth Doomsday And Possible Causes

Eropean Space Agency (ESA), NASA, the Secure World Foundation and other agencies have studied the sky carefully. These agencies concerned asteroid hit the Earth. In addition, these agencies also began thinking about how to deflect blows asteroids capable of destroying the planet. Although until now the agency has not detected the space rock, the internet has shocked the asteroid Apophis 487 meters in diameter.

Space experts predict, the asteroid will rip the sky of Earth and hit the Earth in 2036. However, as in the film, there is always the option to avoid it. "This incident has happened in the past. This will happen again, "said Dr Gerhard Drolshagen of ESA Space Situational Awareness. As in the movie 'Armageddon,' space jockey team tried to blow up the asteroid toward Earth. This option becomes the first choice of course. ESA has long thought about this kind of plan.

This plan is called the 'Don Quijote,' 2005 concept of artificial satellites of ESA involves shooting called 'impactor' on the asteroids 'test' in 2015 to see if the 'weapon' of this space rock could destroy it. 'Weapons' is not a bomb like in the movies but still interesting. "The next time there is an asteroid is detected, we want to do something. Deflection confirmed as one of the choices, "said the source of the ESA. However, despite this continues the story heralded the Daily Mail, Don Quijote has long been closed.

"Don Quijote mission is only to study it. ESA is no longer working on this mission again, "said ESA spokesman Andreas Schepers. However, ESA and several other space agencies have worked to plan the best way to fend off an asteroid mission the past few decades. For example in July 2005, NASA satellites impactor and accidentally sent crashing into comet Tempel 1. European Space Agency has recently concentrated on the SSA bodies leave the eye depending on the tailor-made telescopes amateur astronomers.

In addition, there are collaborations with other space agencies such as the Minor Planet Center Smithsonian Institute and the Secure World Foundation to study the sky when there is danger. The agency is to imagine some wild way deflect the asteroid, says Drolshagen. He acknowledged, engineering-style 'Armageddon' is not necessarily the best. "The way it's not the way to do it," he said.

Resetting the asteroid's path could be as simple as spreading a sheet of white plastic on it. If detected sufficiently far away in space, the strength of sunlight hitting the sheets was enough to to move it. "Cat asteroid with white to enhance reflectivity," says Drolshagen. Alternatively, the satellite landed a small motor with a power booster on the asteroid enough to deflect the asteroid's path, since asteroids have long been detected. Or, simply by using a laser.

"Point the laser to the surface and remove some material from it. This can be done in a very controlled, "he said. The third idea, 'mass projectors' slowly carved on the surface of the asteroid. In addition, there is also the concept of gravity tractors, large spacecraft with the size of several tons could slow the asteroid off course with the amazing power of mass.

"If you've got a few weeks or months, you can slowly get rid of it," says Drolshagen. Encouragement of small, one centimeter per second in a change of pace, would be enough to change direction if you have the time 20 years, he added. According to him, these ideas are very realistic. The concept is more exotic, an explosion near the surface that can release the material, laser, magnetic tractors, even the screen to take advantage of the solar wind.

However, if the asteroid found to lead to Earth and became known only in a few months, "We are in trouble". Blow up the asteroid seems impossible if not detected when the distance is far enough, "Currently we are unable to do so and no plans to do so". Fortunately, experts agree, most of the nearby asteroids have been detected. But even small asteroids can be potentially devastating. "Anything more than 300-400 meters in diameter capable of causing damage to the continental scale," said Stephen Wolters researcher at Caltech.