Asteroids Sixty-Five million years ago, 70 percent of life on Earth died. The most reasonable and possible reason this happened was an asteroid. An asteroid hit the Earth very hard, and in doing this, dirt and dust from the impact stayed in the air and it blocked out sunlight, that’s why the dinosaurs died. An asteroid is a rock from outer space. Asteroids have orbited the Sun along with the planets since the solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago, but it’s only been 200 years since we
Asteroids In our solar system today there are over 30,000 asteroids flying around in all direction colliding with other asteroids and planets, without a care about the destruction they might convey. Our planet Earth is caught right in the middle of all of this action and is liable to entire extinction of any life forms on the planet if a large enough asteroid crosses its path. Any single asteroid has the possibility to erase thousands of years of history and wipeout the human race, as we know it
Asteroids have been around for centuries but scientists have been trying to conduct a machine that will capture the asteroid to protect and mine the material. I think we should fund asteroid studies because we can protect the earth, collect resources, and find new technology. When we capture the asteroid then we can find many different things in the asteroid and probably outside it too. If we fund asteroid studies to protect the earth we can create a device or machine that will collect or destroy
always under threat of a doomesday asteroid that will wipe out civilization. There are over one thousand asteroids traveling toward earth and only three quarters are accounted for. Where are the other one forth? No one knows because the government doesn't fund NASA astrologists enough to cover the astroids. Just one impact could end civilization as we know it. No matter where it hits everything would die, even bacteria. To give an estimate how much is spent on asteroid detection. It is said to be less
The Impact of an Asteroid on Earth Asteroids sling through space, celestial debris of diverse origins, leftovers from the formation of the solar system, broken offshoots of parental asteroids or comets that have lost their glow. But if an asteroid were to smash into Earth, the result would mean a global catastrophe and life on our Planet could come to an end. The explosion would approach that of a million megatons of TNT- sixteen hundred times greater than the most powerful nuclear weapon
Though most people have heard about Comets and Asteroids many are unware of what they are and more significantly, their importance to life itself. Comets and asteroids are often described as small planets differentiating in sizes, some are baseball-sized meteors while some others are about one third the size of the moon. Other common terms used to describe them are rocky and icy bodies left over from the formation of the solar system. According to Don Yeomans from the Propulsion Lab, “Initially there
Asteroid Collision With The Earth Experiment ---------- To investigate the effects of an asteroid impact on Earth through a small-scale simulation. I shall be measuring the depth of the crater caused by a steel ball bearing being dropped from different heights into sand. I shall be dropping a steel ball into sand to simulate an asteroid collision, because the asteroid would be roughly spherical and have a high density, like the steel ball. The sand will react similarly to how
All it takes is one asteroid to make all life on earth go extinct. 65 million years ago one such asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. Despite their destructive reputation, there is more to asteroids than meets the eye. Through modern scientific research we now know the origins, makeup, composition, and potential of these fascinating space rocks. Ironically, even though asteroids could be the end of humanity they could also be its savior. Asteroids are leftovers from the formation of our solar system
The mass extinction of the dinosaurs is still a mystery today, but there are some theories today that suggest what happened. One of the more widely accepted theories is the asteroid theory. This theory suggests that an asteroid with an approximate diameter of 6-15 km, hit the earth with a force of five billion atomic bombs. Another theory that they believe could of happened is the volcano theory, that many volcanoes erupted and wiped the dinosaurs out. Even though we don't know what happened for
“There's big money to be made in asteroid mining”. This was the title of a news story just about a week ago from Business Insider. Most people, including me, would likely react to this headline in the the same way, specifically, “There’s no way! That is ridiculous. Asteroid mining? They can’t be serious.” However, it is true. There does exist a couple big companies trying to get out to asteroids and strike it rich! Ultimately, this idea, of venturing out in into the depths of space to obtain valuable
How can we avoid asteroids? In our everyday lives, there are a multitude of forces acting on and upon us all the time. One fundamental force is gravity. Gravity (also known as gravitational force) is the force of attraction. Every object in the world that has mass exerts a pull-otherwise known as force, on other mass ["Forces of Attraction."]. Gravitational pull increases and decreases depending on the amount of mass, and how close objects are. ["Weight, Mass and Gravity."] [See Fig 1.]. In this
Extinction of Dinosaurs due to Asteroid Impact Nobody knows for sure exactly how the dinosaurs became extinct. However scientists have speculated for decades about possible events that caused the dinosaurs to die out. Possibilities range from asteroids, to volcanoes, to climate changes. One of the more popular or well-known extinction theories involves the belief that an asteroid struck the Earth, causing devastating effects, and triggering mass extinctions around the end of the Cretaceous
Code Computers in Physics Abstract This project is an experiment that sets up the earth's original velocities in the x and y direction and changing them with the velocities/momentum of a meteor. It attempts to simply model a meteorite or asteroid impact upon the earth and the subsequent change to the earth's orbit in terms of distance and speed in relation to the sun. Given the meteor's mass, velocity, angle, and the earth's coordinate point at the point of impact, the computer program
one of the most mysterious legends in the French literary history. As we can learn from the title, the story is about a little prince. He came from a very small asteroid on which there was only one rose and three volcanoes. One day, the little prince left his asteroid and began to travel in the universe. Having visited six asteroids, he came to the earth. In Sahara, he met a fox who told him that it was only with heart that one can see rightly; what was essential was invisible to the eye. Then
In addition to the NASA’s advancement of technology and knowledge, the agency has other, less apparent benefits. The major benefit is economic. Specifically, the NASA technology has been applied in civilian life so well and in so many different ways that the modern economy could not exist without it. NASA innovations have spawned/benefitted numerous companies including Tempur-Pedic, Quantum Devices Inc., Goodyear Tire and Rubber, Thikol Propulsion, and just about any company that uses satellites
Less than three centuries ago, the entire Western half of North America had been completely unexplored. Today, more than a Hundred-Million people live in the Western states. Most of the oil in America is found on the West Coast, along with dozens of major businesses and institutions. The exploration and colonization of the “Last Frontier” has greatly benefitted humanity. If just a few thousand miles of land could have such a large impact on America and the world itself, imagine what an entire planet
1960’s may remember how inspired they felt by NASA’s ambition to do something as amazing as walk on the moon. Today, that inspiration is found in many smaller; yet still significant, creations for NASA programs. Somebody once dreamed of capturing an asteroid, and now NASA strives to make that dream come true. For those people who stare at the sky and question the twinkling lights blinking at them, NASA endeavors to study the more advanced systems of stars by using Pluto as a scale model. Simply because
When I started this paper, I had many questions. I wanted to know what all the main theories of dinosaur extinction are and how many there are. I also wanted to know what factors in each theory would have killed these massive beasts. Other questions I had are: had dinosaurs been dying out before the event? Did any dinosaurs survive the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) event? What religious beliefs contradict the dinosaurs’ very existence? The last question I wanted to address was whether or not an
scientists and paleontologists began pondering how such widespread creatures disappeared. Currently, paleontologists debate the two main hypotheses of how the classic dinosaurs died: from volcanic activity or an asteroid impact. Although they result in the same outcome, the volcanic and asteroid hypotheses differ in key elements: the actual event, the environment's stress, and the impact on life. Physical evidence left behind in each scenario supports each possible explanation for the massive extinction
variety of space rocks. Space contains comets, asteroids, and meteors that rush through space, but don’t make it to Earth because they burn up along the way. This is due to the amount of friction that is produced on its journey through space. Comets, asteroids, and meteors are only a few objects that orbit through space and in our solar system. As a result, these various space rocks fly throughout our solar system, creating a bunch of chemistry. Comets, asteroids, and meteors are commonly put together in