The Threats We Face
The Threats We Face
Four years ago on August 24th 2003, an important discovery was made by a group of researchers at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory. This discovery would make scientist raise the question about what the future may hold for our planet Earth. This was the discovery if a meteorite which was named QQ47 and even more important was the discovery that this Object was in a collision trajectory with Earth scheduled to impact some time in 2014. This grim discovery painted the first real threat of earth being completely by a meteorite.
Even though very little is known about QQ47 it has a very real chance of striking Earth. Although some scientist like Donald Yeomans of NASA points out this may threat may eventually go away once scientist learn more about this asteroid, Just like it happened with a similar threat back in 2002 with meteorite NT7.
Near Earth collision have the potential to completely wipe out humans from the Earth upon impact. Once this Near Earth Object as they......
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