It's a Rod from God, literally. Designed to enter our atmosphere point first, releasing enormous amounts of energy when it hits. Nuclear Winter? Split the planet open. Penetrating the crust. Yup, We're All Gonna Die !
I read on the BBC news on-line earlier this morning that some American kid has exposed an incontrovertible flaw in something NASA said, but I can't find anything now. I do hope the kid's alright!
FYI Rod from God. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment Kinetic Weapon is shaped just so . . . not like a bullet or a ball. This asteroid comes in point first and it is bigger than a Nuc. Big transfer of kinetic energy to our Earth. YOU gotta better reason for its' shape? Or just diss Moi's.
I would think it would be called Lucifer's Hammer, if it were to have impacted earth. I think I once read a book by that name.
No doubt there are conspiracy theory nutjobs who think NASA has hitmen to take out schoolkids, but the reality is NASA appreciates the help and the kid wants to work for NASA. https://sciencealert.com/a-british-teenager-has-corrected-a-mistake-in-nasa-s-data ...Prompted by BBC's World at One host Martha Kearney on whether such a revelation by a schoolboy was embarrassing, Pinsky answered that he didn't think so. "It was appreciated more so than being embarrassing," he said. "The idea that students get involved at a real level means that there's an opportunity for them to find things like this.".... ...At least for Miles Soloman, IRIS has definitely given him inspiration to pursue more science, although he hastens to explain that he wasn't trying to outsmart NASA researchers when he pointed out the data error. "I'm not trying to prove NASA wrong, I'm not trying to say I'm better, because obviously I'm not - they're NASA," he said. "I want to work with them and learn from them."
Great book!** BTW, it'd take a pretty big rock to split the Earth in half and this one isn't big enough: asteroid = 2,124,160,000 tons Earth = 658,500,000,000,000,000,0000 tons Earth is over 3 Trillion times bigger. **Lucifer's Hammer: http://www.nss.org/resources/books/fiction/SF_018_lucifershammer.html
Uncle Ferd says it looks like sumpin ' dat's been squeezed through a black hole... Our First Interstellar Visitor Likely Came From Two-star System March 19, 2018 — Our first known interstellar visitor likely came from a two-star system.
Interesting article. Fun fact: At the speed of our New Horizons satellite (36,000 mph) it would take 78,000 years to get to the nearest binary system - Alpha Centauri. It's pretty amazing that anything shot out of a star system that far away would happen to cross paths with our sun.
