A Close Call

A couple of days ago, an asteroid flew right on by Earth called DD45. This has been one of the more closer calls that we have witnessed in quite some time. Most people don't even realize how close DD45 was to Earth, and how much damage it could have potentially caused.

The asteroid was approximately 48,800 miles from Earth. That is one-fifth of the distance from Earth to the Moon, and twice the height of some of our telecommunicator satellites. If DD45 would of struck the Earth, it might have done as much damage as the asteroid that hit Siberia in 1908. That asteroid wiped out nearly 800 square feet of forests. I also heard that it could have been as big as 1000 nuclear bombs going off!

My question is, why was this story not taken very seriously. I did not even hear the story off of the news, I heard it from my Grandpa. It was only in the news for a single day. After that, there has been nothing said since. With such a big impact on people's lives, I would have thought that more people would of been worrying about it.

There is one lesson that we can take from this, and that is live everyday to the fullest. No one ever knows when they are going to die, or when something catastrophic, like DD45 plummeting into Earth, is going to happen. God is the only one that has control over what is going to happen next.

If I would have known about the asteroid the day that it was close to Earth, I would not even know what to do. People have to be ready for everything and anything to happen. We don't know what is going to happen to our planet next. Tomorrow a massive earthquake could strike, a volcano could erupt, or any other natural disaster can occur. We have to be ready for anything and just live our lives to its fullest potential.