Whenever we hear news about asteroids closing on our planet we are terrified and we ask ourselves if is this really going to happen. Many reports throughout the years say that asteroid will collide our planet on this year but it never happened. Many say that if an asteroid will truly hit our planet it is already predicted in the Bible so why are we afraid?
Asteroids are space rocks that orbits on our Solar System. They are usually called "minor planets" while the larger ones called "planetoids." It is said that about 65 million years ago, an asteroid hit the Earth that made a massive explosion and killing almost all species that was living that time including the dinosaurs. Now, scientists say that the Earth must prepare for possible asteroid collision.
According to The Inquisitr, NASA already determined and classified thousands of this asteroid, but they never released reports of incoming ones. That's why The Minor Planet Center, NASA's funded organization that tracks asteroids, comets and other space object near Earth, opened its news service called "Daily Minor Planet." The news service is committed to giving the public latest news about asteroid potentially approaching the Earth, its size and the probability of its impact.
The Daily Minor Planet will release daily reports on asteroids that will approach our planet, including its name and relative distance to us. With these, NASA scientists will be able to predict and "plan ahead" for possible risks of an asteroid impact.
Earlier reports by Nature World News also stated that NASA and other private companies are fascinated and eager to get more data on these asteroids. This is the reason why NASA is planning to launch Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) in 2021, which will concentrate on protecting the Earth from an asteroid impact. Earlier this month, NASA launched OSIRIS-REx mission with the main purpose of collecting samples from asteroid Bennu and bring it back to Earth for testing.
For the meantime, we have to get information from The Daily Minor Planet on what asteroids will likely hit our planet and hope NASA scientists will come up with a plan for us to avoid any imminent impact.
