Hello John and Doves,
Earth just missed getting hit by a passing asteroid recently. NASA tries to keep up with these 'near Earth asteroids' but once in a while, one sneaks by and we don't see it until it's passed the Earth or we don't see it until it's almost upon us and then we pray it doesn't hit!
One day, we won't be so 'lucky'. In The Revelation, John writes about things that hit the Earth resulting in great destruction during the Tribulation period.
"A 'city-killer' asteroid got scarily close to Earth yesterday, and astronomers didn't know about it until just days away"
Yesterday (July 24, 2019), a 427-foot-wide asteroid passed within 45,000 miles of Earth. Astronomers weren't aware of this particular asteroid, named 2019 OK, until just days before if flew by. That isn't enough time for any existing technology to deflect, destroy, or divert an oncoming space object.
While that may sound far away, 45,000 miles is what astronomers consider a close shave: It's less than 20% of the distance between Earth and the moon. This was the closest we've come to an "Armageddon"-like scenario in at least a few years.....It was barreling in our direction at 54,000 mph."
Sobering to think these rocks go flying by the Earth all the time....some are seen and some aren't...and there probably isn't much they can do to prevent a direct hit if we don't have a good amount of notice...and even then....
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
Maranatha!
Chance
https://globalnews.ca/news/5682069/city-killer-asteroid-passing-earth/
Unexpected ‘city killer’ asteroid narrowly misses Earth - National | Globalnews.ca
An asteroid large enough to wipe out a city narrowly missed striking the Earth late Wednesday, unbeknownst to most people on a planet that might have been forever changed had it hit.
The massive space rock was approximately 100 metres wide and it flew past the Earth at a startling 24 kilometres per second, according to data from NASA. That’s 70 times the speed of sound, or roughly the same speed as the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Astronomers had been watching for three other asteroids to pass by the Earth on Wednesday when they noticed Asteroid 2019 OK appear seemingly out of nowhere. Researchers only spotted it a short time ago, but they didn’t confirm the discovery until a few hours before it passed.
“It’s a city killer,” Swinburne University astronomy professor Alan Duffy told the Sydney Morning Herald. “Because it’s so small it’s incredibly hard to see until right at the last minute.”