Will Earth be destroied by a meteor or somethinglikethis in the next years?

Question

Did Nostradamus say something about?

Answer 1

No asteroid or meteor will ever destroy Earth. The biggest asteroid that has any chance of hitting Earth is far too small to completely destroy the Earth. Anyway, there is no asteroid or meteor that we know of that will ever hit Earth. The fear is that there may be one that we don't know about that could hit Earth in the future, but it must be either very small or on a course that will not hit Earth for many hundreds or thousands, or even millions of years. If there were a big one coming, we would already have seen it. Computer controlled telescopes are automatically and constantly sweeping the entire sky looking for asteroids. All the big ones and many small ones have been seen, identified, and tracked. We know where they are and computers know their orbits well enough to say where they are going. If one was going to hit us in the next 100 years, we would already know it, and none is. If there were a small one that had escaped notice so far, then it would be small enough that even if it hit tomorrow the damage would be limited to the immediate impact area. It would be like a nuclear attack, but with no radiation and all in one place. Bad, but not world destroying.

Nostradamus said a lot of things, none of which has ever been used to predict something before it happened.

Answer 2

I am not sure about what Nostradamus said. But, rightly answered by "campblep2002" there is no scientific evidence of any asteroid hit in the the next hundred years which can destroy the earth.

The planet that gets the largest amount of asteroid hits, is Jupiter. Because of its large size, it has the huge gravitational force that attracts most of the asteroids in the solar system towards itself. It acts as the saviour for our planet.

What must be noted that there was widespread destruction life during the mesozoic era when the earth was hit by an asteroid. The reason for such destruction was sheer coincidence that the asteroid fell on the largest sulfur deposit on the planet. It not only acidified the atmosphere but also the oceans. The percentage of oxygen in the air was reduced from 35% to 21%. Only animals that could survive this change survived and later evolved.

Answer 3

Very unlikely - For the earth to get totally destroyed an object at least 1 /10th of the size and mass of earth should strike it really hard. There is no evidence that it would happen in the near future (at least 100 years) at the moment. A meteor of a lighter scale might destroy the habitat - but not the earth

Answer 4

First of all, not all of the NEO's have been tracked, especially in the southern hemisphere where there are less telescopes. Second, asteroids are not the only problem, even if we found every asteroid over 100m in radius, we'd still have issues with long period comets. These comets can be quite large and come from the outer solar system (where we can't see them). We'd only have a few months, at most, to prepare. Eventually, if we take no action, a stellar object WILL smack us, it's only a matter of time. Given another few hundred years, technology will (hopefully) have advanced to a point where we can avoid such a collision. Within this time frame, it is highly unlikely that such an impact would occur, so I think we're good, unless we end up blowing up and irradiating ourselves (much more likely).

Answer 5

no one extremely is conscious for particular------- lots of the better earth orbit crossing "rocks" have been plotted and tracked by capacity of Astronomers; yet no longer all of them. A "smaller" soccer field length merchandise might desire to nevertheless look from the path of the sunlight with little or no word (a number of hours or some days). This small merchandise vacationing at 30 miles in keeping with 2d ---- swifter if it extremely is a head on collision------ might desire to injury a great land section or create a great tsunami a number of thousand feet intense alongside an ocean's sea coast.

Answer 6

No, although there are reports that the closest encounter with a meteor will happen in the next few years.

Answer 7

If there was any large size craters heading our way, you would know by now. Even if it takes years to get here. Things like that are tracked everyday by astronomers. No worries from anything from outer space. Now the the release date of the PS3 is more of a worry.......

Answer 8

depends if X-Files is right if so then we will be killed off by a alien invasion in the year 2018, so better pack ur unbrellas there be phasers in the air!

Answer 9

no it will be destroyed by george W when he nukes the whole thing

Answer 10

Probably not until 2012.....