NASA experts warn - the chances that our Earth will face a kilometer-long asteroid called 1950 the DA, an all-time high. Calculating a given probability disaster 1 to 300. This is twice higher than that of any other known today on the celestial body. 1950 DA was discovered a long time, over 60 years ago. He saw in the Soviet Army Day - February 23, 1950. On the eve of the new - 2000 - we noticed again. The asteroid is almost circular with a diameter a little more than a kilometer. In NASA have calculated that this giant boulders have a chance encounter with the Earth. End of the world will occur March 16, 2880. You will see a kind of window - the period of 20 minutes of time, or when an asteroid crashes into Earth, or will sweep past at a minimum distance. Determine the fate of our planet more accurately can be no earlier than 2032, when the 1950 DA gets in sight of the radar. Experts already are assessing what would happen if an asteroid will fall still. It will happen, most likely in the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of the United States. And it seems that in this case the Americans will wash away - the height of the waves rose will be 174 meters. This wall of water come crashing down to the shore. This despite the fact that the rate at which drops asteroid to be not very high - 15 kilometers per second. It does not clump hit point-blank range, and touches her, caught up in orbit, the scientists explain. The power of the explosion will be nearly 45 thousand megatons of TNT, that tens of thousands of times greater than the atomic bomb that fell on Hiroshima.
Source: NASA press release
