February 1, 2019 – The World Wide Holiday

Death is indispensable to nature and evolution. Fear of death is instinctive since the nature has given us the drive to survive and so, any news or predictions that seeds the fear of death creates wide sensationalism and one of those is “The Killer Asteroid” that is due to hit the earth on Feb 1, 2019.

“The Killer Asteroid” – 2002NT7 a relatively new discovery was first observed on July 9, 2002 by the LINEAR team. It orbits the Sun every 837 days, traveling in a tilted orbit from about the distance of Mars to just within the Earth's orbit. From its brightness, astronomers estimate it is about two kilometers wide, large enough to cause continent-wide devastation on Earth and also raise a dust storm that could be a horrendous environmental disaster. If it should fall into some ocean, the tidal waves that would result could be of monumental proportions. Astronomers have given the object a rating on the so-called Palermo technical scale of threat of 0.06, making NT7 the first object to be given a positive value and it currently heads the list of our IMPACT RISK.

But this was the conclusion from the very few observations made with the invention of NT7. The odds of the asteroid hitting the earth are 1 in 100,000 which is of very low probability, but it is continuously observed for its huge size. NASA's Near Earth Object program gives the asteroid a rating of "1" on the Torino impact hazard scale one of two such scales for determining the potential risk of asteroids and other objects. That ranking means it is within the range of "events meriting careful monitoring" but not of great concern. The researchers also have the idea to use the nuclear bomb a slight nudge at just the right part of its orbit, causing it to miss us.