The United States hosted exercises in the event of a collision of Earth with an asteroid
According to the scenario, an asteroid with a diameter from 100 to 250 meters could fall into the territory of the United States.
In the United States worked out a plan of action in case of a collision with an asteroid NASA In the USA, there were interagency exercises in case of a collision of Earth with an asteroid, which could be accompanied by large-scale devastation reported on the website NASA.
According to legend, the researchers using observations by ground-based telescopes, learned about the collision of Earth with an asteroid with a diameter of from 100 to 250 metres, which could fall in the United States 20 Sep 2020. Initially, the probability of collisions was equal to 2%, but later scientists found that an asteroid with a 100% chance will fall on our planet.
During the exercise, U.S. authorities worked out a plan of activities necessary for the mass evacuation of the citizens of Los Angeles that could be hurt from the collision with the asteroid. A similar plan was developed due to the lack of time for preparation of a mission to destroy the asteroid or change its trajectory.
Previously, scientists have said that potentially dangerous for the Earth asteroids are invisible to ground-based telescopes. To such conclusions researchers came after analyzing the data of the detections of near-earth objects to several observatories.
