The End is Near!!

The End is Near!!

This picture is from today's New York Times showing the contrail (which is the trail of 'white clouds') of the asteroid that passed over Chelyabinsk in Russia this past February 15.  

So basically, scientists are saying now that the Earth is much more vulnerable to these asteroid strikes than previously thought.  In research to be published today, Peter G. Brown, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Western Ontario, states that such strikes could occur every decade or two.

The Chelyabinsk asteroid was 60 feet wide and traveling at 40,000 miles per hour releasing energy equal to 500,000 tons of TNT.  That's so crazy! and scientists are claiming that more these could be crashing towards Earth?!  The end is near everyone haha

The University of Hawaii already received a grant of $5 million from NASA to set up telescopes to scan the sky for quick moving lights that could be on-coming asteroids. 

This is what that telescope looks like :

http://fallingstar.com/