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<\/p>\nNASA presented the world’s experts with a terrifying asteroid 1000 times stronger than the nuclear bomb that dropped on Hiroshima, with the scientists failing to save an entire city.<\/p>\n
Emilia Randall GAU Writer<\/p>\n
17:23, 26 Sep 2026Updated 17:34, 26 Sep 2026<\/p>\n
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An asteroid hitting Earth(Image: Getty Images\/Science Photo Library RF)<\/p>\n
NASA simulated a terrifying doomsday scenario which would see Earth obliterated with an asteroid smashing into New York in 2027.<\/p>\n
One particularly horrifying simulation in 2019, dubbed Chodas, terrifyingly saw scientists fail to save humanity. The 2027 simulation began on the first day of the conference, where a large asteroid -2019 PDC, between 330 and 1,000 feet (100 and 300 meters), hurtled towards Earth.<\/p>\n
At first, according to the simulation, the asteroid had only about a one percent chance of hitting the Earth, then a fake press release was issued, as per the Centre for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). The US super-eruption will leave survivors eating insects and seaweed, life here came from out there, docs cure cancer by hacking cells, and Jesus could have been a magic mushroom – all this and more in our weird science newsletter<\/p>\n
It read: “College Park, Maryland, USA<\/a>, April 29, 2019. The International Asteroid Warning Network has announced that a recently discovered near-Earth asteroid could pass very close to the Earth 8 years from now, on April 29, 2027, and there is a small chance \u2013 1 in 100 \u2013 that it could impact our planet.”<\/p>\n Scientists failed to prevent the mass tragedy. The asteroid was imagined as striking Earth’s atmosphere at 43,000 mph and hitting New York in a blast that was 1,000 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.<\/p>\n The visceral simulation was created by the space agency at the Planetary Defense Conference Exercise 2019, during the International Academy of Astronautics Planetary Defense Conference (PDC) held April 29 to May 3, 2019, in Washington, D.C. The annual conference brings together asteroid experts from NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and other organisations to plan how to save our planet if the worst-case scenario were to happen.<\/p>\n Day two of the conference was in the simulation year 2021 where NASA had launched a probe to look at the asteroid more closely. At that point in the simulation, the space rock was on a collision course with Earth, and the impact site had been narrowed down to Denver, Colorado.<\/p>\n On day three, every nation’s space agency decided to build a fleet of six “kinetic impactors,” spacecraft designed to ram into the asteroid, slowing it down and hopefully deflecting it off course. These vehicles were launched in 2024, three years from impact, and three of them hit the earth-destroying asteroid.<\/p>\n However, although the asteroid fractured, it was not broken, meaning a smaller fragment would still impale the east coast of America. As with the 2027 projected destruction of New York City, the only remaining port of call is a mass evacuation. Roughly 20,000 near-Earth asteroids have been discovered so far, with another 150 or so new ones found every month, according to the CNEOS.<\/p>\n NASA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released an 18-page document in 2018 outlining steps the agencies would take over the next 10 years to prevent actual asteroid strikes and prepare for a potential doomsday scenario. The bottom line is that mass evacuation is often the only port of call.<\/p>\n Want to see more of the stories you love from Dublin Live? Making us your preferred source on Google<\/a> means you\u2019ll get more of our exclusives, top stories and must-read content straight away. To add Dublin Live as a preferred source, simply click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Join our Dublin Live breaking news service on WhatsApp. Click this link <\/a>to receive your daily dose of Dublin Live content.<\/p>\n We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don\u2019t like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you\u2019re curious, you can read our Privacy Notice.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA presented the world’s experts with a terrifying asteroid 1000 times stronger than the nuclear bomb that dropped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[79,24],"class_list":["post-863393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-science","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}