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NASA Launch Urgent Investigation Into ‘Armageddon’ Asteroid
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NASA have launched an investigation into the so-called ‘Armageddon’ asteroid that appears to be heading towards Earth
Scientists will collect rock samples from the asteroid named Bennu, in an effort to understand just how much of a danger it poses to life on Earth.
Independent.co.uk reports:
Bennu, which is around 500 metres in diameter at its equator and travels around the sun at 63,000mph, will pass between Earth and the moon in 2135.
“That 2135 fly-by is going to tweak Bennu’s orbit, potentially putting it on course for the Earth later that century,” Dante Lauretta, professor of planetary science at Arizona University, told The Sunday Times.
“It may be destined to cause immense suffering and death,” he added.
Mr Lauretta, Nasa’s principal investigator in charge of the Osiris-Rex probe mission to Bennu, launching in September, said the probe will map the asteroid, pick up some rock samples and then head back to Earth. He said information on the asteroid’s size, mass and composition could be vital data for future generations.
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2016/08/nasa-launch-urgent-investigation-into-armageddon-asteroid/
