What’s so important about asteroid studies? This is not a typical question asked, but still it is very important. I think NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) should fund asteroid studies because we need safety for Earth, more resources, and the U.S. is very competitive with everything involving space and traveling, in order to learn. When we have the studies for asteroids it can help us learn both commonly and safety. Let's explore some of the reasons why NASA should fund asteroid studies. what are the dangers of asteroids and how can we stay safe from them?Everyone knows how important safety is for everyone and how we need to know certain things to be safe, but what if we didn’t have the information to know how to stay safe. In, Gravity Tractor as Asteroid Mover by Emily Sohn, it states, “A collision is inevitable. When the rocky object hit´s the planet, lot’s of people will die.” This is tied to, how would we stop this collision, or how could we stay safe? How do they expect us to be safe if we don´t know certain things. NASA should fund these asteroids to keep us safe, even though they burn up coming into our atmosphere sounds dangerous, it doesn't always have to be. Could these asteroids be …show more content…
These materials could be useful in a way, because we could be being introduced to new soil or rocks. In the article, Tunguska Meteor Impact, it states, “Thirty seven years after the Tunguska blast, branchless trees would be found at the site of another massive explosion…” This helps us prove that when the asteroid hits it will leave behind things that will stay there for a long time. The 2013 Budget Puts Brakes On Planet Probes say that NASA spends 11% on Planetary Science Research in, NASA’s 2013 Budget Puts Brakes On Planet Probes. This is way less than it should be, there should be more studying going into these asteroids to help us with our
Asteroids are tiny, airless rocky worlds orbiting around the sun and most of them are too small to be called planets, yet, some asteroids are too big too not to be acknowledged and are known as planetoids or minor planets. The mass asteroids are puny but despite their size, asteroids can be deadly. The earth has been hit by many asteroids in the past and can potentially be hit by some again. That's one reason why scientists study asteroids and find ways to avoid them from hitting us or at least predict if they are coming.
about to take place. All a meteor is, is a chunk of rock of that is being
“In a fraught fiscal climate, NASA should focus on what it does best and on what offers the best return on investment. Solar system exploration meets both criteria: the U.S. has long led the interplanetary charge, and the resulting scientific benefits have come at a relative bargain. This year NASA 's planetary science program cost about $1.5 billion -- less than what NASA spent designing a congressionally mandated rocket, the Space Launch System, which appears more likely to satisfy aerospace contractors than to aid the cause of space exploration. Such directives from lawmakers all too often land in NASA 's lap without the funds to carry them out (To The
Not all meteors are the same material wise. Some meteors are made out of rock, while others are made out of iron. Some even have a mixture of both, but in most cases, it is one or the other.
According to Canadian researchers, hypothetically, it would take approximately 1,591,500,000 pounds of force to move the moon which I have calculated from the average mass, velocity, and time of impact of the asteroid that struck the moon, this asteroid would not have enough force. Once the asteroid hit the moon even with its apparent density it would not move the moon, it would only cause another crater on the moon’s surface, possibly deep or wide crater though. For the sake of this essay, let’s say it did move the moon and started the descent, the effects would not show on earth for a while, which brings me to my last
These are the reasons why I believe there should be more investment in space research and technology. It would be a time consuming and financially draining quest, but the pay off in new technology, applications, resources, and expansion opportunities make it a goal to strive for. As our rate of consumption of Earth’s natural resources continues to increase, it is imperative that we invest in the research of outer space as a possible solution to sustaining the human race.
The sounds of the news is constant for students trying to keep track of the meteor. More annoying than anything in college. The meteor will hit the school, so? It’s not an extinction level event...Ok, it might but I’m not running just yet we still have five months of school so that means by the last day of school it will hit.
He figures out which ones are coming our way, and whether or not they are a threat (Kluger 1). Astronomers estimate that one in a thousand asteroids that pass our Earth will hit us (Booth 98). This may not seem like very many, until you consider that we are hit with at least one basketball sized asteroid every day (Kluger 6). So what happens when our one sizeable asteroid a day ends up being the size of a mountain? Well, if it happened today, we would surely be dead.
Knowing the impermanence of the Earth, do humans have a moral obligation to find and
This crater was estimated to be formed around one billion years ago and was expected to have ejected 250,000 cubic miles of material9 which is said by senior writer Mike Wall from space.com as “enough to fill the grand canyon 1,000 times over”15. Dawn’s imaging system revealed that Vesta is of the same geological makeup as 5% of the meteors found on Earth, referred to as HED (howardite-eucrite-diogenite) meteorites. Meaning that when this crater was formed billions of years ago some of the ejected rock smashed into Earth to become a part of our planet3,15. This is important because scientists now have a definitive connection between an inner terrestrial planet and the asteroid
NASA’s research and innovation looked promising, but it came at a cost. Money, resources, and spacecraft accidents, most famously Apollo 13 all hindered NASA’s research. In the 21st century, the debate over funding for NASA is at its peak since the birth of the organization in 1958, especially when there are numerous problems throughout the world. Is the money spent on space exploration worth the advantages and advances it contributes to society? When considering this topic, one might ask themselves, why explore space?
Over time, other scientists began finding iridium evidence at many different locations around the world that supported the Alvarez theory. In 1991, an immense meteor crater, about 110 miles in diameter, was discovered on the the Yucatán Peninsula. The crater even extended to the Gulf of Mexico. The Chicxulub Crater, as it was called, was named after a nearby village. Scientists believe the meteor that formed this massive crater was around 6 miles in diameter. It is also believed that it struck the earth at 40,000 miles per hour and released 2 million times more energy than the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated. This great impact would have caused so much heat that would have boiled the earth’s surface. The scorching temperatures would have caused wildfires throughout the globe and the Earth would turn into complete darkness because debris would have filled the sky. It is believed that mile-high tsunamis could have the momentum to cover the continents, which would drown multiple species of life. Massive shock waves would even have the power to trigger earthquakes and volcanic eruptions all over the planet.
Collisions with larger asteroids are rare, but smaller ones are more. numerous. The. It is estimated that a few asteroids with a diameter of 1 km 0.6 mile may collide with the Earth within a period of 1,000,000. years.
There are more than 20,000 pieces of debris larger than a softball orbiting the Earth. This debris can travel at speeds up to 17,500 mph. Even a relatively small piece of space debris can damage a satellite or a spacecraft at these speeds. Additionally, there are more than 500,000 pieces...
Most people think that the costly downside to funding space exploration is a reason to avoid spending money on sciences and instead spend it on problems here on earth, but such funding for space exploration actually promotes economical as well as scientific benefits. Space exploration is an important expenditure for the high cost because of the potential for numerous benefits such as the possibility to find useful resources to cultivate, space exploration and satellites produce many thousands of jobs in our economy, and it creates and discovers newer and better technologies through research and development.