A rising risk of a collision with an asteroid, according to Czech researchers
Published by The New Paradigm on 8 June 2017, 10:09 am
The scientists drew their conclusions after analyzing 144 bolide - large luminous meteors - within the Taurids. Image of illustration. @ Handout / NASA / JPL-CALTECH / 2MASS / AFP
The asteroids in question come from a branch of the Taurids, shooting stars of a meteoric swarm regularly appearing in the sky.
Astronomers from the Czech Academy of Sciences on Tuesday raised the higher risk of the Earth being hit by an asteroid, urging research to avoid "a local or even continental disaster."
"Potentially dangerous objects". The asteroids in question come from a newly discovered branch of the Taurids, shooting stars of a meteoric swarm regularly appearing in the sky. The study strongly recommends that further research be carried out to "better describe this real source of potentially dangerous objects important enough to cause local or even continental disaster". The new branch includes objects moving together around the Sun. The Earth meets them once every few years, for a period of about three weeks.
At least two asteroids from 200 to 300 meters in diameter. "During this period, the probability of a collision with a size object (about dozens of meters in diameter) is obviously higher," the Czech Academy said in a press release. The scientists drew their conclusions after the analysis of 144 bolide-luminous meteors in the Taurids and the detection of this new branch comprising at least two asteroids from 200 to 300 meters in diameter.
Undetected asteroids. "Most probably, the branch also includes many undetected asteroids, about ten meters in diameter or larger," the Academy said in a press release. "Hence the risk of a collision with an asteroid that obviously increases when the Earth meets this swarm of interplanetary matter, every few years," according to this text. Asteroids are very fragile, but when they are as big they can penetrate deep into the atmosphere and create a real threat of collision with the Earth, scientists explain.
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Un risque grandissant d'une collision avec un astéroïde, selon des chercheurs tchèques - Le Nouveau Paradigme
Published by The New Paradigm on 8 June 2017, 10:09 am
The scientists drew their conclusions after analyzing 144 bolide - large luminous meteors - within the Taurids. Image of illustration. @ Handout / NASA / JPL-CALTECH / 2MASS / AFP
The asteroids in question come from a branch of the Taurids, shooting stars of a meteoric swarm regularly appearing in the sky.
Astronomers from the Czech Academy of Sciences on Tuesday raised the higher risk of the Earth being hit by an asteroid, urging research to avoid "a local or even continental disaster."
"Potentially dangerous objects". The asteroids in question come from a newly discovered branch of the Taurids, shooting stars of a meteoric swarm regularly appearing in the sky. The study strongly recommends that further research be carried out to "better describe this real source of potentially dangerous objects important enough to cause local or even continental disaster". The new branch includes objects moving together around the Sun. The Earth meets them once every few years, for a period of about three weeks.
At least two asteroids from 200 to 300 meters in diameter. "During this period, the probability of a collision with a size object (about dozens of meters in diameter) is obviously higher," the Czech Academy said in a press release. The scientists drew their conclusions after the analysis of 144 bolide-luminous meteors in the Taurids and the detection of this new branch comprising at least two asteroids from 200 to 300 meters in diameter.
Undetected asteroids. "Most probably, the branch also includes many undetected asteroids, about ten meters in diameter or larger," the Academy said in a press release. "Hence the risk of a collision with an asteroid that obviously increases when the Earth meets this swarm of interplanetary matter, every few years," according to this text. Asteroids are very fragile, but when they are as big they can penetrate deep into the atmosphere and create a real threat of collision with the Earth, scientists explain.
Editing Europe1.fr with AFP
Un risque grandissant d'une collision avec un astéroïde, selon des chercheurs tchèques - Le Nouveau Paradigme
