What happens when a golf-cart-sized spacecraft collides with an asteroid? Learn about NASA’s daring DART mission.
What happens is we hope and we pray. But we’re always disappointed in the end.
Only a ~2% chance 4 years from now. And it’s an order of magnitude smaller than the one that hit Chicxulub. Yawn
Don’t look up!
And in 2029, a 340-meter asteroid called Apophis—after the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness—will pass within 32,000 km of Earth, which is closer than some geosynchronous satellites. This will happen on 13 April 2029—Friday the 13th, that is.
We’re cooked
funny thing the astronomers were fans of sg1, thats why its named apophis, and yes its also a egyptian god.
apophis and her’ur the only ones to wear gold armor and lead thier troops into battle int the series.
Don’t threaten me with a good time…
if it were a 10km iron bolide it would be different.
It gets the clamps. Also, loads more gold, so gold prices plummet.
