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The most threatening virtual impactor is on Tuesday, 24 September 2182 when there is a 1 in 2,700 chance of an Earth impact, [10] but the asteroid could be as far as the Sun is from Earth. [115] To impact Earth on 24 September 2182 Bennu must pass through a keyhole roughly 5 km wide on 25 September 2135. [123]
In the 2017 mobile game Fate/Grand Order, Moriarty's Noble Phantasm is called The Dynamics of an Asteroid. During the Shinjuku Pseudo-Singularity, his goal is to destroy the Earth following the theory developed in this book using the asteroid 101955 Bennu as the "bullet," and the abilities of the Phantom Spirit of der Freischütz to guarantee ...
Pieces of 4.5-billion-year old space rock will tell us where we came from, scientists hope
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Bennu was chosen as the target of study because it is a "time capsule" from the birth of the Solar System. [25] Bennu has a very dark surface and is classified as a B-type asteroid, a sub-type of the carbonaceous C-type asteroids. Such asteroids are considered primitive, having undergone little geological change from their time of formation.
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Ivan's Hammer is the idea to use a natural asteroid or meteoroid as a weapon of mass destruction in a first-strike role. The concept can be traced back to the 1960s. At the annual meeting of the American Astronautical Society, in January, 1962 Dandridge M. Cole warned that as early as 1970 the Soviets could develop the technology to divert a near earth asteroid to impact a target on earth.