The collision would have the power of 150 Hiroshima bombs and would leave an apocalyptic scene on our planet.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, for its English abbreviation) calculated that the 2009 asteroid JF1 could hit Earth on March 6, 2022 at 8:44 AM.
The collision would have the power of 150 Hiroshima bombs and would leave an apocalyptic scene on our planet.
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Additionally, NASA estimates that the probability of a collision is 1 in 3,800 (0.026%), despite this it defines it as ‘potentially dangerous’
The date for the collision was specified after in-depth observation of the asteroid by means of a US space agency collision monitoring system that classifies objects near the planet based on their size, speed, dimensions and the year they are located. believe the impact will occur.
Asteroids are celestial objects that move in orbit, with a small or significant eccentricity around the sun, and whose inclination on the elliptical can be any angle.
“Some asteroids and comets follow orbits that bring them much closer to the sun than normal, and thus to Earth,” NASA explained in a statement.
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Those asteroids are under constant surveillance by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, using an automated system called the Sentry. This system manages to measure a large amount of data that allows us to determine, for example, that 2009JF1 is an Apollo asteroid, that is, its orbit around the sun is greater than that of the Earth.
According to NASA, “Sentry is a highly automated collision monitoring system that continuously scans the most current catalog of asteroids looking for opportunities for future impact on Earth over the next 100 years. Each time a potential impact is detected, it is analyzed and the results are immediately published here, except in rare cases where we seek independent confirmation. It is normal that, as additional observations become available, objects disappear from this table when there are no more detections of possible impacts. For this reason we keep a list of deleted objects with the date of deletion ”.