The collision would have the power of 150 Hiroshima bombs and would leave an apocalyptic scene on our planet.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, for its acronym in English) has calculated that the asteroid JF1 from 2009 could hit Earth on March 6, 2022 at 08:34.
The collision would have the power of 150 Hiroshima bombs and would leave an apocalyptic scene on our planet.
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In addition, NASA estimates that the probability of impact is 1 in 3,800 (0.026%), despite this, it defines it as “potentially dangerous”.
The date set for the collision was specified after a thorough observation of the asteroid through a collision monitoring system of the US space agency that classifies objects near the planet according to size, speed, size and year in which they believe the impact will occur. .
Asteroids are celestial bodies that move in orbits, either with a small or considerable eccentricity around the Sun and whose inclination on the elliptical can be from any angle.
“Some asteroids and comets follow orbital paths that bring them much closer to the Sun than usual and therefore to Earth,” NASA said in a statement.
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These asteroids are constantly monitored by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, using an automated system called Sentry. This system manages to measure a large amount of data that allows us to determine, for example, that 2009JF1 is an Apollo asteroid, meaning that its orbit around the Sun is larger than that of Earth.
According to NASA, “Sentry is a highly automated collision monitoring system that continuously scans the latest catalog of asteroids for future impacts on Earth for the next 100 years. Whenever a potential impact is detected, it will be analyzed and the results will be published immediately here, except in the rare cases where we seek independent confirmation. It is normal that, as additional observations become available, objects disappear from this table when there are no more possible impact detections. For this reason, we keep a list of deleted objects with the date of disposal “.