{"id":217781,"date":"2023-03-22T09:55:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T13:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=278287"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:45:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T02:45:50","slug":"nasa-the-earth-big-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/nasa-the-earth-big-asteroid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Asteroid Threat: NASA Warns of Threefold Increase in Risk to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The risk of the <a href=\"https:\/\/3d-earth-for-pc.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Earth<\/a> being hit by a large asteroid <strong>triples <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/author\/nasa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NASA<\/a>&#8216;s estimates<\/strong>, the space agency has warned after analyzing new data. The chief scientist of the Goddard Space Flight Center, James Garvin, has presented the worrying conclusions after weighing information from several satellites that observe the Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Normally, it was believed that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/life-beyond-earth-asteroid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asteroids or comets<\/a> of at least one kilometer in diameter <strong>impacted the Earth every 600,000 to 700,000 years<\/strong>. However, these new data suggest that at least <strong>four of them<\/strong> have passed the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere in this time period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/incoming\/article29519149.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s338a\/0_Screenshot-2023-03-21-191354.jpg\" alt=\"Los \u00faltimos hallazgos sugieren que el cr\u00e1ter en Pantasma en Nicaragua ten\u00eda 21 millas de ancho en comparaci\u00f3n con nueve\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Asteroids that could have caused major extinctions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garvin has admitted that they <strong>may have misinterpreted his earlier findings<\/strong>, and that these impacts could have led to the mass extinction of life at every point in time. As he explains, these impacts are up to ten times more powerful than the largest nuclear bomb in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study is part of the planetary defense research, in which new high-resolution images of four craters have been used so that the team <strong>can map them in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/downloads\/3d-design\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">3D<\/a><\/strong>. The craters included are from the Pantasma area in Nicaragua, Bosumtwi in Ghana, Iturralde in Bolivia and Zhamanshin in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garvin has presented the findings at the Planetary and Lunar Science Conference last week and stated the following: &#8220;<strong>This is serious business<\/strong>. We have turned our attention to four complex impact craters spanning the past ~1.0 Ma [1 million] of Earth&#8217;s history, mainly within tropical regions, with different target rock features.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA discovers that the impact of a large asteroid against Earth is something much more common than we thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9257,"featured_media":217782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-217781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321537,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217781\/revisions\/321537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217781"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=217781"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=217781"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=217781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}