Simulation of the collision of the Earth with an asteroid showed disappointing results

This Monday, the best minds of humanity gathered the seventh conference on planetary security under the

auspices of the International Academy of Astronautics. The main goal of the conference was to conduct a computer simulation of an asteroid collision with the Earth. The results, spoiler alert, are disappointing.

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What will happen?

If two years ago at a similar eventIt turned out that the asteroid would wipe out New York from the face of the earth, but this time an unenviable fate would befall the three-hundred-kilometer zone between Prague and Munich. Scientists calculated that the impact would affect the Czech Republic, Germany and Austria. And such destruction can be caused not by a giant space rock, but by a small (by cosmic standards, of course) rock 140 meters wide.

And how do you defend yourself?

NASA is making calculations about the asteroidDimorphosis, which, according to the agency, is approaching our planet and a collision with which may happen somewhere at the end of 2022. To avoid such a sad scenario, the DART &#8211; program was created. Scientists plan to slow down the asteroid by colliding it with a spacecraft. But scientists also noticed that this needs to be done a couple of years before the expected collision &#8211; otherwise, there simply won’t be enough energy to change the asteroid’s course so dramatically.