Most people are thinking of political, public, and personal problems but there is one huge problem that does not cross peoples minds everyday but should. On this past Wednesday two small asteroids passed within the moon's distance from the earth. These two asteroids were only about 12 hours apart from each other. The first asteroid which was estimated to be 32 to 65 feet in diameter, passed within 154,000 miles of earth and the second was seen to be about 20 to 46 feet in diameter which passed within 49,088 miles of earth. Luckily both of these asteroids were caught three days prior on sunday. Seen through calculations, it was determined that these asteroids would not hit earth and if it were to do so would not break through the crust and only give a bit of a light show. But, what if? What if there was an asteroid that was not spotted in time that we could do anything to prevent it, what if it were traveling at twice the speed and twice the size, what would we do? I am not saying that political matters and solutions should not be worried about and forgotten, but i do think that more money and research should be put into NASA and other world space associations to come up with preventions if an asteroid were to be directed right towards earth, along with ways of spotting these asteroids in a more efficient accurate matter. I mean think about it if an asteroid hit earth there would not be any more political matters or money problems to be thought about, world as we know it could and defiantly probably would be over. Now do you think the money and time is worth it?
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