What now?!

History Channel is featuring ARMAGEDON week. As one of their features, they aired THE UNIVERSE:Cosmic Apocalypse. When it comes to Scientific information, I know squat about it. If not for my son and fiance, I would be so oblivious of anything that does not revolve around cosmetics, shoes and clothes.

This episode I would say is one of my many favorites. The computer graphics are of course superb but knowing that people with GREAT MINDS have been working none stop to save our PLANET is another story. Other than global warming, the next biggest threat our beautiful Planet face is an impact with an asteroid. It is not a matter of if but a matter of when. According to the Earth Impact Database, more than 160 impact craters have been recognize. The biggest crater is the "Chicxulub" Mayan name, the tail of the devil. This is measured to be more than 110 miles in diameter which was made by the asteroid that took out the dinosaurs.

Another crater which is one of the famous one here in the US can be found in Northern Arizona known as the meteor crater, which collided with earth more than 50000 years ago. The most recent one would be the asteroid that did not create a crater. This asteroid exploded before hitting the ground in Syberia. Just imagine the effect of 1000x Hiroshima Bomb!

Due to this results, NASA created the NEAR EARTH OBJECT PROGRAM. Their main focus are to find asteroids that post the most serious threat to EARTH. Since, I am not one of those with Great Minds I will end my blog here but will continue. Just in case don't miss the rerun on Jan28 on the HISTORY CHANNEL.

near earth object program... to find asteroids that post the most = serious threat to earth.