Calculating Heavenly Calamity with a Grand Hexagram
Belle had fallen asleep. Jiang Hao pressed her sleep acupoint so she would not be disturbed, then took out his laptop and connected it to the telescope. He said to Xiao Xin, "Check the position on this star chart and see whether this asteroid has any online records."
Xiao Xin hurriedly began comparing the data.
The International Asteroid Center MPC was an international organization specializing in observing and monitoring asteroids. It also shared data with astronomical observation units in other countries. Under normal circumstances, the asteroid Jiang Hao had seen should have been recorded in its database.
In fact, there were thousands of asteroids around Earth every year, and the vast majority posed no threat. There was no need for him and Belle to be surprised by the asteroid they had seen. However, Jiang Hao had felt a sense of crisis the moment he saw it. That was unusual.
Afterward, he performed a divination, and the result was that this asteroid would bring disaster to Earth, confirming his earlier feeling.
"Beep beep~ Boss, I found it!" Xiao Xin sent back a message.
Whoosh~!
A page popped up on the computer screen, displaying monitoring data from the International Asteroid Center. After reading it, Jiang Hao discovered that the asteroid had been detected three months earlier and its orbit had been calculated. It had been named 2020NB4.
Next, Jiang Hao found a NASA scientific report on asteroid 2020NB4. Its estimated diameter was around 1.2 to 2.1 kilometers. It was irregularly elliptical in shape and was surrounded by a meteorite belt spanning several hundred kilometers.
Its flight speed was approximately 8.7 kilometers per second. Orbital calculations indicated that 2020NB4 would make a close pass by Earth in a month and a half, with its nearest distance