The Asteroids Closest to Killing Us, Visualized

Started by Anestan, 23 October 2010, 06:43:15 PM

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The infographic by Mechanicsville, Maryland, designer Zachary Vabolis maps out Near-Earth Objects  -- NASA-speak for asteroids and other scary crap that could send us the way of the dinosaurs -- according to how close they'll get to our planet and when.

The data apparently comes straight from NASA and only shows objects that are 1,000 meters in diameter or wider, ie. big enough to do some damage. Basically, Earth is like one of those movie-star action heroes that gets shot at by about 1,000 machine guns but miraculously never gets hit.

So we're not sure what this chart can do except frighten the be out of you. But take heart: The biggest one on the list, a gem called 1036 Ganymed that's double the size of the asteroid thought to have wiped out more than half of the species on Earth 65 million years ago, won't come into town until... next year.

source : fastcodesign

junxiong

Hmm....

Tahun 2004, NASA menemukan sebuah asteroid dengan diameter sekitar 270m menuju ke arah bumi. Dengan perhitungan kasar waktu itu
diperkirakan asteroid ini akan menghantam bumi pada tahun 2029. Asteroid itu dinamakan 99942 Apophis. Asteroid ini mencatat rekor sebagai
asteroid dengan skor Torino tertinggi (penilaian peluang dan potensi impact yang diakibatkan objek dekat-bumi seperti asteroid/komet) yaitu nilai 4.

Akhirnya tahun 2006 setelah melakukan perhitungan ulang, nilai skor Torinonya menjadi nol. Bumi memang planet yang paling aman. Planet ini seperti tokoh utama bintang film, biarpun ditembak dari segala arah, tetap gak ada satu peluru pun yang kena.

Jadi saya pun merasa asteroid-asteroid itu memang cukup besar untuk memusnahkan umat manusia, tapi mgkin cuman akan sekedar melewati Bumi saja...
"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts argue, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents." - Nathaniel Borenstein

kullatiro

wah kita mesti rajin melakukan etavata biar banyak astroid yang meleset tahh. :))