Last Saturday, astronomers discovered a new asteroid, just a few hours before it almost hit us.
The asteroid is called 2016 QA2, and it missed the Earth by less than a quarter of the distance to the moon.
That puts it about three times as far away from Earth as our farthest satellites. And we never saw it coming.
Ah yes.. but that's what they say.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/spac...d-by-asteroid/
If a large Asteroid was on course to hit Planet Earth. Should Authorities let the public know?
The Asteroid that possibly made the dinosaurs extinct and according to abundant geological evidence, was an asteroid
roughly 10 km (6 miles) across.
https://www.psi.edu/epo/ktimpact/ktimpact.html
I have always wondered how Humans would react to a sign of impending disaster and possible death.
Would individuals suddenly go on a raping & pillaging spree?
Would the Church's suddenly find themselves full , with people asking for forgiveness for their sins?
Would Supermarkets and shops suddenly find themselves looted ?
And then, if suddenly an Asteroid impact was averted, would Insurance companies have to pay up for a lot of mess ?
Informing the public of an Asteroid impact certainly has a lot of Social Responsibility attached to it..
Maybe it is best that the public are not informed.
How would you react to an impending Asteroid impact, if you where told a very large piece of space rock
was about to hit the planet ?
The 2013 Russian Asteroid (Meteor), was only 20 metres in diameter.. The sound wave smashed windows and injured 1500 people.