Space Rock Ignited Fears Of World War III
With our planet’s best space object detection systems being only able to give barely 8-hours of warning time between the discovery of space rocks hurtling towards us and their nuclear weapon-like detonation in our atmosphere, this report continues, most critical to note is that this only applies to space rocks detected during the night—but does not protect us from space rocks approaching from the “day side” of Earth, as they would be invisible because the Sun’s light would stop us from seeing them in time to give warning. […]