[Metalab] FW: Asteroid Impact of 1,000 Hiroshima Nuclear Bombs...

[Thomas Steinbrenner]

FYI :)

 

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Subject: Asteroid Impact of 1,000 Hiroshima Nuclear Bombs...

 

 
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Hi Thomas, 

As you probably have heard, today, February 15th, a 150-foot (45 meter)
asteroid is whizzing by the Earth a hair's breath from the surface.  Missing
us by only 14,000 miles, well within the 22,300 mile orbit of the
Geostationary satellites that orbit around the Earth's equator.  I wanted to
put this in perspective for you with some of the
<http://planetaryresources.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=86e5e3fd66ecbde
da82b09373&id=1ca8bc5971&e=aad5bcdede> chilling and fascinating facts:

1.     This is approximately the same size as the asteroid that hit the
Earth in Russia in Siberia (the "Tunguska Event") on June 30th 1908.

2.     That impact was equivalent to 1,000 Hiroshima nuclear bombs & knocked
down 80 million trees down over an area covering 2,150 square kilometers
(830 sq mi).

3.     Had it hit near a population center it would have killed millions of
people.

Today, there are approximately 610,000 asteroids that are actively tracked
in our Solar System.  This number represents less than one percent of the
more than 60 million asteroids that orbit the Sun. 
 
To learn more about the threat that these asteroids pose and what Planetary
Resources, Inc. and the Asteroid Mining industry can do to help protect the
Earth,
<http://planetaryresources.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=86e5e3fd66ecbde
da82b09373&id=bd2dfd7683&e=aad5bcdede> CLICK HERE.

 

-Chris Lewicki

President & Chief Asteroid Miner

 
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