Астероид 2002NT7

[Kirill]

Сегодня вечером НТВ пугало 1.5км астероидом 2002NT7, который обрушится на наши головы в 2019 году. Стало интересно [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] , но узнал я только то, что это не утка и что открыт он был LINEARом.
Проблема в том, что из 106 комнаты лаб. корпуса САО где я сейчас сижу не видно ни одного адреса, содержащего "nasa.gov". Кто был на neo.jpl.nasa.gov плиз, поделитесь впечатлениями [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

[Alexander Burukhin]

Там в новостях ссылка на сайт CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/0....ap/index.html

Asteroid may hit Earth but don't panic yet
July 24, 2002 Posted: 1:46 PM EDT (1746 GMT)

LONDON (AP) -- Astronomers are carefully monitoring a newly discovered 1.2-mile-wide (2 km) asteroid to see whether it is on a collision course with Earth.

Initial calculations indicate there is a chance the asteroid — known as 2002 NT7 — will hit the Earth on February 1, 2019. But scientists said Wednesday that the calculations are preliminary and the risk to the planet is low.

"The threat is very minimal," Donald Yeomans, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, told British Broadcasting Corp. radio. "An object of this size would be expected to hit the Earth every few million years, and as we get additional data I think this threat will go away."

The object was detected on July 9 by the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research Project in New Mexico. It orbits the sun every 837 days, and NASA scientists predict its path could intersect with the Earth's orbit. But they say more observations over the coming months will help them plot its course more accurately.
NASA's Near Earth Object program gives the asteroid a rating of "0" on the Torino impact hazard scale — within a range of "events meriting careful monitoring," but not concern.

However, the discovery has provided more ammunition for those who say humans should take the risk posed by space objects more seriously.

"There's a good chance this particular object won't hit us, but we know that a large object will hit us sooner or later," said British lawmaker Lembit Opik, who has long warned of the danger posed by asteroids.

NASA estimates that asteroids big enough to cause catastrophic destruction could theoretically hit Earth every million years, or at longer intervals.

Last month an asteroid the size of a soccer field missed the Earth by 75,000 miles — less than one-third of the distance to the moon in one of the closest known approaches by objects of its size. Scientists said if it had hit a populated area, it would have released as much energy as a large nuclear weapon.

Большего навскидку найти не удалось.

Вообщем, CNN. И понятно, откуда взялся сюжет на НТВ.

Ну, во-первых, диаметр астероида NT7 ближе к 2-ум километрам. а все, кто хочет узнать побольше пусть зайдут на форум (на этом сайте)"Угроза столкновение с астероидом" или что-то в этом духе (очень извиняюсь перед авторами форума, но я забыл его точное название).