Elizabeth Howell, Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022. She was contributing writer forfor 10 years before that, since 2012. As a proud Trekkie and Canadian, she also tackles topics like diversity, science fiction, astronomy and gaming to help others explore the universe. Elizabeth's on-site reporting includes two human spaceflight launches from Kazakhstan, three space shuttle missions in Florida, and embedded reporting from a simulated Mars mission in Utah.
in Space Studies from the University of North Dakota, and a Bachelor of Journalism from Canada's Carleton University. Elizabeth is also a post-secondary instructor in communications and science since 2015. Her latest book, Leadership Moments from NASA, is co-written with astronaut Dave Williams. Elizabeth first got interested in space after watching the movie Apollo 13 in 1996, and still wants to be an astronaut someday.
I guess size matters 😎
Oh I remember questions like this. There is too much possibility, so why not study the inconsistent parts first? Because possibility means, new ways but not answers. By studying inconsistencies, There will be Answers and New Ways at the same time.
This is what we need.
Mars it is
hope it never happens
Elon Musk would send the Dragon space craft to deflect it from earth. Yeah Elon, you saved us.
Everyone would go out and buy all the toilet paper.
It depends how big it is, I think.
not enough lead time to do anything, hope its a tiny asteroid, work on bucket list, say your goodbyes, many get insanely violent.
I would hope that the project my dad was working on in early 2000 would shoot it out of the sky and break it up into little pieces.
Nothing, as science is far more Advance then used to be. All countries, friend or fo, wll come together to find solution.
I’d accept my fate! I lived an incredible life!
Bad people would start acting at their worst.
This movie has an accurate prediction on what would happen.
If that were the case, there would probably be new heavens and a new earth and a new population (if) but after a long time because it would wipe out most if not all of the present population. I don't like that ending either.
What joy, what celebration.
Then people would finally stop fighting about politics.
Lets pray it lands on the Whitehouse.
We would argue, blame putin, say it may not fit the definition of an asteroid and then be obliterated.
What would happen 🙏
Don't look up🤫
A counter hit with powerful plasma or lazer to destroy it?
With out reading the article I would say it depends on the size
Death and destruction. That's all you need to know.
Probably half universe will be sweep out.
My dream to see it..
China, USA and Russia would bomb the pebbles out of it and the atmosphere would disintegrate the smaller pieces.