Meteorwrongs.

• Autores: Steve Mirsky
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 292, Nº. 3, 2005, págs. 102-102
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses the likelihood that an astroid will collide with the Earth. Crashes were all over the news around the time of my train trip, because a hunk of matter some 400 meters across had suddenly become a solar system media star: the likelihood that an asteroid dubbed 2004 MN4 would cause a really bad day in the year 2029 was briefly rated an unprecedented 4 (out of 10) on the Torino scale. The scale in fact describes the level of threat from space stuff smashing into Earth. Richard P. Binzel, a planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the inventor of the Torino scale, has a strong affection for Pluto, amateur astronomers and the Italian city of Torino, where he first proposed the impact scale at a conference in 1999.