Earth's quasi-Moon, Asteroid Day
Today is June 30, 2024 and this date is precisely the international asteroid day that is celebrated in commemoration of what happened in Tunguska, on June 30, 1908 and also to raise awareness about the problem of asteroids and also the potential it has in the future to obtain resources to advance our development as a civilization.
The earth needs a defense plan against asteroids because at any moment a scare can happen, a scare that can destroy an entire city and it is not a joke, it happened in the past and will happen in the future, there is no indication of Although asteroids have stopped falling, they continue to fall just as they have for millions of years.
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All this is fascinating, and the following is somewhat surprising, a contest has been organized to give an official name, an official name, recognized by the International Astronomical Union, to give a name to an asteroid, but not just any asteroid but a pseudo moon of The Earth, specifically 2004 GU9, is about 200 m in diameter and accompanies our planet in an orbit that makes it a quasi-Moon.
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Another interesting note that has occurred these days is that it has published the first analyzes of the samples brought from the asteroid Bennu, which is about 262 m in diameter, and the first surprise, one of the samples, the first surprise is that dust rich in carbon, nitrogen, organic compounds and all these elements are essential components for life as we know it. Curiously, there are clay minerals that are particularly serpentine.
Can you imagine that life could have formed in one of them and that it ended up destroyed and that life ended up reaching Earth in some way through the asteroids, is one of the possibilities they propose.
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