The plot of the movie Don't Look Up could have been from a new report published yesterday.
The European Space Agency's Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC) has removed an asteroid from its database after initial observations showed a potential impact with Earth in July of 2023.
In January this year, we became aware of an asteroid with the highest ranking on the Palermo scale that we have seen in more than a decade. MarcoMicheli said that he had never seen such a risky object.
It's a relief to know that the asteroid won't hit our planet. The potential date of impact, energy of the strike and impact probability are combined to create the Palermo scale. Some asteroids present a small risk, but most burn up upon entry into Earth's atmosphere.
It's a little scary to think about giant space rocks crashing into the Earth, but we can rest easy knowing that the NEOCC's AstOD automated system flagged the asteroid just one day after it was discovered. Every day, the system calculates asteroids and scores them with the Palermo scale, and the results are posted on the website.
We've got the NEOCC, not the Avengers.
The latest star photo from the Webb Telescope is absolutely magnificent.
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