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Culture February 6, 2017
Four giant asteroids have come uncomfortably close to Earth in the last four weeks.
The latest space rock was the size of a bus and moving 16 times faster than a speeding bullet.
Most of us were too busy watching “The Bachelor” or dropping the kids off at school to notice the looming danger from above.
But astronomers at Slooh, a company that broadcasts live views of space, have been watching the skies.
They spotted this latest space invader from one of the company’s telescopes in the Canary Islands.
It came half the distance between the Earth and the moon on Feb. 2 while traveling at 25,800 miles per hour.
Slooh staff told Space.com that this was the fourth space object to come within Earth’s lunar orbit in the last four weeks.
More are expected soon, according to various space experts, but we might not be able to see the next one.
During a webcast, Slooh astronomer Erik Edelman said weather conditions and speed of movement by space rocks can make it difficult to spot asteroids.
The impact of what would happen if one of these asteroids smashed into our planet would depend on a number of factors. These include the angle of the hit and the size and speed of the space rock.
But it could be anything from a relatively harmless air burst or a few windows smashing to devastation many the times the power of an atomic bomb or even the kind of massive destruction and obliteration of world landmarks as seen in countless big budget science fiction movies.
The fact is that while we worry about terror attacks here on Earth, the next big terror attack could well come from space.
Meanwhile rumors that President Trump plans to build a wall around the planet and have the aliens pay for it cannot be confirmed at this time.
