Asteroids death stars telescopes and snot somehow all of those things are in this video so stay tuned to find out how starting off the list today ft3 a lost asteroid that could very well collide with Earth on October 5th of the Year 2024 so in other words 6 months from now it's been called
The Lost asteroid because astronomers haven't actually been able to see it since 2007 but the trajectory determined at that time showed that the asteroid had a won an 11.5 million chance of colliding with our planet later this year so what happens if that slim chance becomes a sure thing well as you can imagine irreparable damage the energy released on impact would be equivalent to 2.6 billion tons of TNT which would cause massive
Regional damage I know it's an incredibly slim chance but still it's pretty worrying nonetheless luckily however the Collision of this asteroid would not trigger a global catastrophe like the one that took out the dinosaurs so I guess as long as you're far away
From the sight of impact you would survive but I'm assuming an event like this would cause a major decline in the quality of life worldwide so I'd still be worried next up we've got wr104 the real life death star that is getting closer and closer to our planet each and every day okay so it's not actually a mooniz Star Wars space station with the ability to destroy our entire planet it's actually a triple
star system a group of three stars spinning really fast around one another with the ability to destroy our entire planet currently the system is 7500 light years away but it's getting Faster by the minute and it's also aimed directly at Earth so it's not promising as the main star of the trio continues consuming gas from the other two it also holds the potential to go supernova and if that happens while the star is directly facing us it's possible that not even 7500 light years will protect us from the intense gamy burst that may be released from the celestial being if it misses us great it will be one of the most talked about astronomical events in history but if not it could be one of the most talked about great
Extinction events in history I'm really hoping for the first one next up we have snotball asteroids what are they well it's an asteroid of any size really with a soft crust outer shell inside the object is made up of ice snow and bacteria if the asteroid were to come into contact with Earth plunging down into the depths of the ocean would that bacteria have the ability to survive well probably especially considering the fact that it's highly likely that the oceans on our planet were created by asteroids filled with water water in the first place the waters in the snot ball and the waters in our oceans would likely provide a similar environment in
Which the bacteria would be able to survive and maybe even Thrive once introduced to our underwater ecosystems but with life on Earth continue to thrive once this foreign bacteria is introduced well it's possible I mean anything's possible but I'm thinking you wouldn't be wrong to be worried next on the list we have
Gaia B H1 the current closest black hole to Earth and when I say close I mean it this thing is only 1,500 light years away from Earth which in the scheme of things means that it is practically sitting in our planet's backyard when it was first discovered in 2022 scientists took note that this particular black hole was 10 times closer to Earth than the previous record holder and not only that but
Gaia bh1 has a mass of 10 times bigger than that of our sun meaning meaning its gravitational force is insane currently Gaia remains relatively dormant thank God I mean it even has a little sunlike star of its own orbiting its perimeter and it hasn't sucked that thing up yet but should the black hole decide to change its predominantly dormant ways given its proximity to Earth in scientific terms we'd be screwed next up for those of you born in 1999 or later your 30s are looking like they might just be a bit non-existent and that will be all thanks to 99942 apus an asteroid set to make its closest approach to Earth on April 13th of 2029 currently it's set to come no Closer Than 19635 Miles but you know things change
and considering the fact that this thing is equivalent to five football fields across and taller than the New York Empire State Building should something cause this asteroid to go off of its predicted course and cause it to collide with Earth's surface we could be looking at some serious damage and that's if this next one doesn't get us first asteroid a n10 is next and it's set to make its closest contact to Earth in the year 2027 passing within just 242,000 Mi this asteroid is 6 of a mile or 965 M long which may sound small in the scheme of things but I feel it's it's important to note that an asteroid with a diameter of even just 300 M can cause Regional Devastation and this is three times that given that the asteroid doesn't decide to randomly change course and collide with Earth when it passes at a distance almost equivalent to the distance between Earth and the Moon it will likely be visible through binoculars so if you'd like to see this Marvel mark your calendars for August
7th of 2027 but now I'm thinking of what would happen if the asteroid hits the moon huh next up we have om mua mua and I've actually talked about this one before which makes sense because it's super fascinating it's also been called The Traveler which makes sense considering it didn't actually originate within our solar system in fact no one knows which star system amua mua originated in but what we do know is that it's had to cover quite a long distance to get this close to Earth the foreign object was discovered on October 19th of 2017 and obviously was something no one had ever seen before it's unclear whether or not the object is an asteroid or perhaps even
A Shard of hydrogen ice formed by a cold Interstellar dust cloud mixed with gas and so the object is referred to as simply a space Rock and this space rock made its closest contact to Earth in October of 2017 we got lucky then but who's to say something doesn't change its trajectory which is currently heading towards Neptune back to Earth if Jojo can come back like a boomerang why not amua mua that's a pop culture reference for you guys by the way amua mua directly translates to a messenger from a far arriving first so if a
muamua itself doesn't come back to earth the name really implies that something else will next up gamma rays which we talked a little bit about when discussing the Death Star earlier well gamma rays are bursts of penetrating electromagnetic radiation produced by colliding neutron stars or the collapse of giant Stars into black holes so what would happen if either of those things took place in part of the Milky Way galaxy you know our galaxy well it wouldn't be good while Gamay burst can be absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere if a catastrophic event like Star Collision or collapse were to occur close enough to Earth which it totally could the atmosphere would be no match for the radiation almost instantly the beam of the gamma ray would wipe out half of our planet and cause unimaginable levels of radiation to settle in the affected areas so it's not ideal next up benu
I hope I'm pronouncing that right and I know the title of this video says near future but in the scheme of things like the entire universe scheme of things I personally think that September 2nd in the year 2,182 is not that far away I mean it's 158 years our grandkids will probably be alive for that which is great but also kind of scary considering that 2182 is the year in which benu is supposed to make its closest approach to earth oh and there is also a 1 in 2,700 chance that it will strike our planet and again given the scheme of the Universe I feel like those still aren't great odds maybe like 0.
and 3 billion would give me confidence but one in less than 3,000 I don't know benu is a 74 million t ton 49 km carbon Rich asteroid believed to have broken away from a much larger one between 2 billion and 7 million years ago if it were to collide with Earth the impact would be equivalent to the detonation of 1.
billion tons of TNT it might not end the world but it would certainly end millions of lives unrelated how is Elon coming on the whole Mars thing and finally we have perhaps the most daunting threat of all if I'm being honest space junk it is estimated that there are about 500,000 pieces of space junk between 1 and 10 cm and over 25,000 larger pieces caught within the orbit of the Earth in 2023
211 spacecrafts were successfully launched into orbit and so far in 2024 the number of successful launches sits at 71 and that's just 4 months into the year while advancements in Science and Space exploration are amazing the more satellites that get launched the more crowded Earth's orbit becomes and the greater risk it becomes overcrowding leads to a greater chance of collision and I don't think I have to explain to you why satellites colliding are bad but here's the thing it's actually way worse than just losing internet or cell service collisions like that can cause more shrapnel to break off into orbit and if our orbit becomes polluted enough it will eventually become unstable causing space travel to become the equivalent of driving a jeep through a landfill but much more dangerous so it's going to inhibit our ability to explore space which is obviously not a good thing there's so much out there to know and also not to mention objects like the Hubble Space Telescope
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