Chapter 801 Dominate again... again

"Asteroid No. 4179, also called "Tutatis", is the largest near-Earth asteroid known to mankind and poses a great threat to the earth."

The "near-Earth asteroid "Tutatis" has never given astronomers peace of mind. At present, astronomers around the world have discovered a total of hundreds of thousands of asteroids, including more than 10,000 near-Earth asteroids. "Tutatis" It is the largest one.”

"It has a length of 4.46 kilometers and a width of 2.4 kilometers. It moves around the sun in an elliptical orbit. It will approach the Earth basically every four years. Once the huge Tutatis hits the Earth, it will impact the Earth. Earth is devastated."

"Scientists speculate that the reason for the extinction of the dinosaurs was that the earth was hit by an asteroid twice the diameter of Tutatis. If this asteroid hit the earth, the earth would also be pilled."

I don’t know when this kind of news started to circulate on the Internet. Maybe there was such news after it was discovered. With more and more precise detections of it, more and more detectors passed by it. Its information became more and more comprehensive, and more and more information was circulated later.

It was only in mid-March that problems began to arise in this information flow, which suddenly began to increase, and it was still mainly information from the United States, or information sent by the famous American Space Agency.

Although the quadrennial day has come when "Tutatis" will "pass by" the Earth, Arc Light Aerospace has calculated its accurate orbit. By then, it will be two Earth-moon distances from the Earth. It will pass by and not hit the earth.

Arc Light Aerospace is now the authority in the earth's aerospace industry, and one of the things it is famous for is its accurate tracking data. It has said that it will not hit the earth, so there must be no problem.

It’s so obvious, why is the United States starting to preach about the dangers again? What's the use?

No matter how powerful it is, it won't hit the earth, so what's there to worry about?

But before people could wonder for long, the United States made its debut.

A heavyweight documentary was released, and with the cooperation of the American Internet power, it quickly spread around the world.

Several engineers and astronomers who have made great achievements in the field of international astronomy spoke in the documentary and explained the reasons why the United States did this.

"...Since 1992, "Tutatis" has quietly approached the Earth every four years. Especially in 2004, its distance from the Earth was within 0.01 astronomical units, which is far smaller than that of near-Earth asteroids. The Earth is 0.05 astronomical units away from the "warning line", which is a distance of 7.5 million kilometers."

"This periodic 'reincarnation' is not standard, that is, the distance is different every time it approaches the earth, so this brings a certain degree of uncertainty."

"Even if it doesn't hit you this time, it will hit you one time, especially since the universe is full of uncertainties. It's possible that a collision with an asteroid can change its orbit and make it hit directly. Earth."

"This kind of time bomb-like existence allows it to pass by the earth arbitrarily every four years. This is irresponsible to the earth and all mankind."

"An asteroid twice the size of Tutatis caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. However, humans are not dinosaurs. We will not accept our own doomsday without resistance, so such a time bomb, We need to cut its threads."

"To this end, the U.S. government authorized NASA to establish the "Tutatis" project team..."

These engineers and astronomers made the matter very serious in the documentary, and then introduced the US government's plan to capture the asteroid.

Since this dangling asteroid is so dangerous, just catch it and tie it to your door.

In the documentary, the ins and outs of the U.S.'s "Tutatis" plan were explained, and how difficult it was for the U.S. to do so and that it paid a lot of price for the safety of all mankind.

Of course, here, this plan started many years ago, and after so many years of execution, and later with the help of the initial island's alien technology, only then can we have today's foolproof guarantee.

Finally, he added, "After the asteroid is dragged into Earth's orbit, American scientists will conduct detailed exploration and research on the asteroid."

"These works will provide important reference value for future deep space exploration of asteroids, and for exploring key scientific issues such as the internal structure and formation evolution of other asteroids, the probability of impacting the Earth, the origin of the formation of the solar system, and whether life on Earth is "seeded" by meteorites. "

As soon as this incident came out, the whole world was shocked.

Is it safe to put such a big asteroid in Earth orbit?

What if an operation error occurs and it hits the Earth directly?

NASA also provided an explanation for this.

"According to the latest data, we analyze that this asteroid is not a whole piece of space debris, but is made up of different fragments brought together by gravity. Therefore, compared to the whole asteroid, its structure is It’s rather loose.”

"If an accident occurs and it crashes into our earth, the loose structure allows us to easily destroy it with bombs, so in the plan, from the moment it starts moving towards the earth, our Nuclear bombs are already aimed at it."

Basically it means: don't panic, everything is under control.

As it completed the feat of landing on the moon decades ago, its aerospace capabilities were once the best in the world, and they even still hold the record for the longest distance ever detected by a planetary probe, the words of the American Space Agency still carry a lot of weight. .

However, some people will still doubt the safety of the plan. For example, what will happen to the debris swarm formed after blowing it up?

After all, this is a big thing nearly five kilometers in size. Even if it is blown to pieces, there will still be some large fragments. Those larger fragments will still pose a great threat to the earth.

But in the United States, it's still: Don't panic, everything is under control.

Then Balabala, the little devil...well, Balabala said a bunch of very reasonable plans, saying that it was really no problem.

Moreover, everyone in the United States does not need to agree with their plan, as long as some people agree. As long as it is not a United Nations General Assembly and all countries oppose their implementation of this plan, then there will be no problem and the impact will not be big.

So just like that, while being afraid, people can't help but look forward to it.

If an asteroid nearly 4.5 kilometers long and 2.4 kilometers wide were placed in Earth orbit, it would be much larger than the Tiangong Space Station, the largest man-made object in Earth orbit today, at least four times larger.

At the beginning, the 100-meter-long little guy and the former International Space Station could all be photographed with ordinary photographic equipment at a suitable night as a bright outline, and then small light spots could be seen across the sky with the naked eye.

Later, with the Tiangong Space Station that was ten times larger, people could even see the rough outline of light with the naked eye. Then ordinary photography equipment could shoot it more clearly, and even the basic structure could be seen.

If an asteroid four times larger than the Tiangong Space Station is placed in orbit, there will probably be an obvious "big star" in the sky.

Although it is much smaller than the moon, it cannot be ignored in the sky because it is much larger than the small points of light of other stars.