NASA predicts large asteroid could smash into Earth in 159 years

NY Post ^ | 19/9/23 | Patrick Reilly

[TomGuy]

Leftists and their stupid climate change attempts will have wiped out life on the planet long before this rock hits.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Ug! It’s always something. This is why we can’t have nice things.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Eleutheria5.

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[SunkenCiv]

https://search.brave.com/search?q=asteroid+bennu

Physical characteristics

Dimensions
565 m × 535 m × 508 m

Mass
(7.329±0.009)×1010 kg

Mean density
1.190±0.013 g/cm3

[SunkenCiv]

The rest of the OSIRIS-REx keyword, sorted:

• How NASA's Audacious Mission To Sample An Asteroid Almost Ended In Bizarre Disaster [07/10/2022]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day - Tagging Bennu: The Movie [11/03/2020]
• NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collects significant amount of asteroid [10/24/2020]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day - Tagging Bennu [10/22/2020]
• Here It Is: The Spectacular Footage of NASA Touching Down on an Asteroid [10/22/2020]
• A NASA Spacecraft Is About to Land on an Asteroid And Grab a Sample. [10/20/2020]
• Asteroid Bennu Caries Organic Materials Consistent With Ingredients For Life [10/09/2020]
• OSIRIS-REx readies for sample collection, observes strange activity at asteroid Bennu [10/01/2020]
• NASA spacecraft swoops down low over asteroid Bennu to eye sampling site [06/09/2020]
• Eruptions on Asteroid Bennu Hint at Causes of Space Rock Explosions [12/05/2019]
• No, You Won't See an 'Apocalypse Asteroid' in the Sky on Valentine's Day [02/11/2019]
• Watch NASA's OSIRIS-REx Rendezvous With an Asteroid: The spacecraft arrives at the tiniest [tr] [12/03/2018]
• Live coverage of spacecraft arrival at asteroid December 3 [12/02/2018]
• NASA Spacecraft Begins Final Approach to Big Asteroid Bennu [08/21/2018]
• Chasing asteroids: Dual missions sniff out clues to solar system's past [08/20/2018]
• Asteroid Bennu: Target of Sample Return Mission [03/13/2018]
• NASA's Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft Just Got an Amazing Side-Quest [02/04/2017]
• NASA asteroid probe may find clues to origins of life on Earth (Bennu, time capsule of our origins) [09/08/2016]
• NASA plans to launch study of asteroid that could destroy Earth (Bennu in 2135 scenario) [07/31/2016]

[rdl6989]

I wasn’t planning to be in town around that time anyway.

[Mr. K]

LMAO