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The star Wormwood falls towards the earth (1909 Old Believer illustration) Wormwood strikes the earth (Douce Apocalypse, late 13th century) Wormwood (ἀψίνθιον apsinthion or ἄψινθος apsinthos in Greek ) is a star or angel [ 1 ] which appears in the Book of Revelation .
99942 Apophis (provisional designation 2004 MN 4) is a near-Earth asteroid and a potentially hazardous object, 450 metres (1,480 ft) by 170 metres (560 ft) in size, [3] that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 when initial observations indicated a probability of 2.7% that it would hit Earth on Friday, April 13, 2029.
However spectroscopic observations now strongly suggest that it is tilted at an angle of 30°-40° and so any gamma ray burst should not hit Earth. [204] [205] > 500,000 Nick Bostrom: According to a journal article by Bostrom, an asteroid impacting with Earth would need to be larger than 1 km in diameter to render humans extinct.
In a bit of ominous news befitting a Friday the 13th: It turns out that the asteroid Apophis could have a very small chance of colliding into Earth in five years, when it is expected to make a ...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists Lance Benner, Paul Chodas and Mark Haynes are studying the 1,100-foot wide asteroid Apophis, which will come within viewing distance of Earth on April 13, 2029.
Wormwood (Bible), a "star" that falls to earth in the end times, makes water bitter, and kills many people; Wormwood (short story collection), a book of short horror stories by Poppy Z. Brite; Wormwood (Taylor novel), a 2004 fantasy novel by Graham Taylor; Wormwood, a collection of science fiction stories by Terry Dowling
An example is a G4 storm that hit the Earth in March of 2023 and caused aurora seen as far as Phoenix, Arizona. It had originally been expected to be a G3, but a later eruption of the sun made the ...
Its orbit was expected to bring it within 0.429 AU (64,200,000 km; 39,900,000 mi) of Earth on December 26, 2013. [110] Nonetheless, believers tied it to the Nibiru cataclysm, claiming it would hit Earth on that date, or that it would fragment and pieces of it would hit Earth. [24]