Asteroids are relevant left over from the formation of the solar technique. Asteroids are rocky and clanging stuff that orbit the Sun but are too small to be considered planetss They array in dimension from a diameter of about 1000 km, down to the extent of sand. Most asteroids are limited within a core belt that exists between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Some have orbits that annoy Earth's route and have even hit the Earth in time forgotten. One of the best preserved examples is Barringer Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona.



In March of 1989, asteroid 1989 FC came within 690,000 kilometers of the Earth. Let me give it to you in another way that might make this more unfeigned. It crosssed the earth's orbit at a place where the earth ahd been six hour ahead. That's way too closed. Nevertheless who knew?

In 1908 a bolide (firey asteroid) hit an uninhabited are of Russia, close to Tonguska, Siberia. It incinerated hundred so sq. Miles of land with a coerce 1,000 period as great as the Hiroshima atomic bombs. Nevertheless suppose what. Had Asteroid FC hit the earth it would have been 15-20 epoch more robust than the 1908 hit.

One of the developing theories about what is impending in 2012 is known as Planet X or what the Sumerians call Niburu. Planet X is the 10th earth. It does subsist. It wasn't officially discovered until 2005 though of course early civilizations knew it existed 5,000+ time ago. How do they know these equipment? The name that was given this new find is 2003-UB313. Doesn't sound all that exciting does it? So, it was untouched to Eris. What will it's outcome be on the sun? COuld it have unanticipated gravitational and electromagnetic reprecussions for 2012?

Or could something be entrance our way from the Kuiper belt? What's NASA not decisive us?

In another blessed forget, in 1994, Shoemaker-Levy 9 stopped into Jupiter causig fireballs better than planet earth. A blunt hit here and I would not be writing this commentary, nor would you be analysis it. What we're not informed of is that therer's, an estimated 25-30,000 small dull comets (mostly frozen ice) that blast into our atmosphere DAILY!

What scientists are approved ahead is that we face an interesting trifecta around 2012 that consists of heightened sun situation activity, matchless planetary configurations, and the time with an interstelalr energy plasma cloud that's not going to heal us welll at all.

While asteroid collisions are underdone and far between (thank God), they can't be ruled out and there's not enough time to try to devise some classify of guard approach against such incidents- other than increased collective consciousness or noosphere advancement.