The distance is too close, and the two pieces of debris are far apart, and the Hubble-2 space telescope cannot monitor both pieces of debris at the same time with the time-sharing function.

At this point, astronomical telescopes on the ground come into play.

Because Professor Burke asserted that debris 334 would not hit Earth, no one paid attention to debris 334, and everyone's attention was focused on debris 0.

Based on data from several large observatories, Burke re-estimated the mass and velocity of the Debris 0 and updated its orbital parameters. With a mass of 1.14 million tons and a velocity of 327 kilometers per second, the debris 0 hit in the western Pacific Ocean, 1,800 kilometers from mainland China in the east, 1,100 kilometers from the Japanese archipelago in the north, 1,400 kilometers from the Mariana Islands in the west, and 2,200 kilometers from the Philippine Islands in the south. Using a supercomputer, Burke also roughly estimated that the debris would vaporize a quarter of its mass in the atmosphere, with an impact mass of 780,000 tons and a velocity of 280 kilometers per second!

What is this concept?

Fragment 0 will release three times ten of 25 joules of energy on impact, equivalent to 728 trillion tons of TNT equivalent, or more than 3,500 times the total yield of nuclear warheads used by humans to intercept fragments. This energy is equivalent to a hundred times the total energy consumed by human beings in production and life in the hundreds of years after entering the industrial age, which is enough for human society to consume for half a century!

The global catastrophe caused by the impact is simply unimaginable!

Burke was not only desperate, but numb.

After the impact, all personnel and facilities within a radius of 1,000 kilometers will be destroyed in an instant, and the air near the impact site will be heated to hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius in an instant, followed by a wave of high temperatures of up to thousands of degrees Celsius, which will quickly spread across the world within 24 hours. Even in the South Atlantic, the farthest point from the point of impact, the temperature of the sweeping air wave is more than 1,000 degrees Celsius.

In one day, the grasslands and forests of the land will be set on fire.

With the exception of a very small number of personnel hiding in deep bunkers, all personnel exposed to the sun, huddled in cellars, and hiding in caves were not spared.

More than 90 percent of terrestrial animals and birds will become extinct within 24 hours.

Only, this is only the beginning of the great catastrophe.

This was followed by a mega-earthquake.

The magnitude of the earthquake at the point of impact can no longer be measured by the usual standards. The earthquake will spread all over the world, and will be felt even from 5,000 kilometers away, while at 3,000 kilometers it will be equivalent to a magnitude 9 earthquake, that is, all buildings within a radius of 3,000 kilometers will collapse.

This area includes almost all of Japan, eastern and southern China, most of the Philippines, the entire Mariana Islands, and the Russian Far East.

After the super earthquake, the super tsunami will sweep through the Pacific coast. Because the average water depth near the impact site is more than 5,000 meters, and the sea area is extremely vast, and the Mariana Trench, which is more than 10,000 meters deep to the east, there is sufficient water to generate a super tsunami.

The height of the tsunami will be more than 1,000 meters, and most of the islands in the Pacific Ocean will not be spared, and the islands will not be able to block and weaken the tsunami. Four hours after impact, the super tsunami will first sweep across the Japanese archipelago, and even if a few Japanese have escaped the previous heat waves, they will be engulfed by the tsunami. This will be followed by a super tsunami that will engulf the Mariana Islands, eastern China and the Philippines, then Southeast Asia, the Southwest Pacific Ocean, the Hawaiian Islands, the Russian Far East, eastern Australia, New Zealand, the West Coast of the United States, and the western part of the entire American continent. Everywhere a tsunami goes, cities, towns and villages will be submerged.

If the catastrophe ends here, humanity will not be extinct.

It's just that heat waves, super earthquakes and super tsunamis are just the "first trilogy" of disasters.

With the release of huge energy, most of it is converted into internal energy, first of all, the ecological environment of the ocean is devastated. The average water temperature in the Pacific Ocean will rise by 20 degrees Celsius in a month, leading to the extinction of most marine life, followed by the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean, and the average water temperature of the global oceans will eventually increase by 10 degrees, which will cause 95 percent of marine life to become extinct.

Rising sea temperatures will lead to the melting of the Arctic, Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, rising sea levels and expanding ocean areas. As the ice sheet smiles, large amounts of low-temperature freshwater melt into the ocean, causing the demise of several major ocean currents and completely disrupting the ocean's thermal circulation system. This will be followed by a rapid drop in ocean temperatures, and the surviving marine life will be wiped out once again.

The direct consequence of the ocean upheaval is the global climate and environmental upheaval.

Climate catastrophes will last for decades, if not centuries, and neither land nor sea will be suitable for life, and only single-celled lower organisms, as well as a very small number of mammals and small birds, and a very small number of fish will survive the catastrophe.

This definitely does not include human beings.

Even if the few who survive to hide in deep bunkers survive, they will die within a few decades due to lack of food, lack of water, etc.

However, the earth will not die out, and the earth's ecological environment will not be completely destroyed.

Over the past billions of years, the earth's ecological environment has experienced several similar catastrophes, and the most recent ones have been restored to the original state, that is, the earth's ecological environment itself has a strong resilience ability.

Hundreds of years after the Great Tribulation, as the ocean reaches its maximum, the sea reflects more sunlight, causing the Earth to absorb less light energy, and the Earth's temperature will stabilize and slowly decrease. It's a very long process, maybe thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years, before the oceans freeze again, ice caps appear in the Antarctic and Arctic, and then ocean currents reappear, and the marine ecosystem starts to improve. Push back hundreds of thousands to millions of years, and the terrestrial ecological environment will gradually be restored. The first to be "restored" on land were the lower plants, then the shrubs and tall trees. The small animals that survived the catastrophe were given a wider space to live and once again embarked on the path of natural evolution, and began to grow in size, and new species were born.

It's just that none of this has anything to do with humans.

No matter how advanced human science and technology are, human civilization will die out in millions or even tens of millions of years.

It is important to know that the written history of mankind is only a few thousand years.

Perhaps, tens of millions of years from now, a completely new intelligent creature will rule the earth like humans, and then look at humans the same way humans looked at extinct dinosaurs.

Everyone, like Burke, was in utter despair.

Interestingly, there was no commotion in the command center, and it seemed that everyone was waiting for a miracle to happen.

Debris 0 is still more than 200,000 kilometers away from the Earth, and there are still more than 10 minutes to go. Perhaps, the God who created mankind, or the Buddha bead that transcends all beings, or Allah, who leads believers to the light, will appear at this time and save their followers with a miracle.

There was silence in the command center, and everyone stared at the large screen showing Fragment 0.

The Hubble-2 telescope has turned its lens to debris 0 and is not paying attention to debris 334.

It's just that, after a while, the Hubble-2 telescope will not be useful. When the distance between Debris 0 and Earth is reduced to 200,000 kilometers, the rotation speed of the main frame of the Hubble-2 space telescope will not be able to keep up with the speed of the debris, and it will be impossible to continue monitoring the debris.

Next, a US military optical reconnaissance satellite will continue to monitor the debris 0.

The optical reconnaissance satellite is also equipped with optical telescopes and CCD imaging equipment, but the resolution is far less than that of the Hubble-2 space telescope. The most advanced optical reconnaissance satellites, in clear weather, also have a resolution of only 0.1 meter on ground objects. The Hubble-2 space telescope has a resolution of up to one centimeter at a distance of only 60,000 kilometers, which is used to monitor debris from 200,000 kilometers away. Debris 0 is only eighty meters in diameter and occupies only a few pixels in the photographs taken by reconnaissance satellites.

Displayed on a large screen, it is an extremely faint bright spot.

When Debris 0 approached, at a distance of 100,000 kilometers from Earth, the bright spot that appeared on the screen quadrupled in size, but it was still very small.

Suddenly, the bright spot brightened a little, but for a moment, many people didn't notice.

Burke kept staring at the big screen, and he could see clearly as the brightness of Fragment 0 increased, but it was so brief that he suspected it was just an illusion.

If God really existed, the 2014X1 asteroid would have been slapped away long ago.

Is it really God's way of punishing his people for their wicked deeds?

"Professor, Professor Burke......"

Hearing someone shout at him, Burke snapped back to his senses.

"Professor, look!"

On the big screen, a clear image of fragment 0 again appeared. The signal was sent by the Hubble-2 telescope, indicating that the space telescope had once again begun to monitor debris 0.

What's going on?

"Professor, the speed of Debris 0 has dropped to 170 kilometers per second, 103,000 kilometers from Earth."

"Where's the track?"

"Declination angle of eight .2 degrees."

"What!?" Burke thought he had misheard. He was one of America's finest astronomers, and certainly knew the meaning of this orbital declination.

"It's at least eight .2 degrees, and the exact measurements haven't been completed yet."

Burke was startled, immediately picked up the phone microphone, and dialed the phone number of Luo Jinyong's office.

There was a sound of ticks, but no one answered.

"Hurry up, go find Professor Luo Jinyong!" Burke knew that at this time, only by letting Luo Jinyong come could he figure out what was going on.

"He's gone."

Burke turned around sharply and found that it was Zhang Xiaogang talking to him.

"I just got him on the plane, and the plane has already taken off." Zhang Xiaogang walked up to Burke and said, "It's a pity that you couldn't let him stay sooner. ”

"But ......"

"Professor Burke, now you're the head of the Scientific Advisory Board."

Burke sighed secretly, if he had Luo Jinyong's talent, he would not be what he is now, and Luo Jinyong would not have his current achievements.