Neocatastrophism is an idea which claims that our planet and its inhabitants have been shaped by cataclysmic events. Stating that the gradual change in earth has been a result of asteroid crashing into earth.
This theory had been put forward by Luis Alvarez and his son Walter which got published on science journal and won them a Nobel Prize. Their published note state that dinosaurs, indeed the whole of Cretaceous Tertiary mass extinction was caused by an asteroid crashing into earth. The estimation of that asteroid was about 10 km in diameter.10 years later of publication a crater was discovered near Chicxulub, Mexico.
In fact NASA has warned an asteroid larger than London's iconic Big Ben clock tower will whizz past the planet at incredible speed next week. According to US space agency, Asteroid QU1 will make a so called "Earth close Approach "on Tuesday, September 11.Asteroid QU1 will zip by at speed of around 12.52km per second .Asteroid QU1 will fly at a distance of 2.6 millions miles as per NASA published on Express.
On the contrary, if such events happened before is there possibility of earth being destroyed by an asteroid? Does the next coming asteroid will again whizz past the earth or hit the earth? These are the predictions that no one could make leaving all of us on a question mark. Is our end near?
On the contrary, if such events happened before is there possibility of earth being destroyed by an asteroid? Does the next coming asteroid will again whizz past the earth or hit the earth? These are the predictions that no one could make leaving all of us on a question mark. Is our end near?
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