Chapter 92: A New Crisis

Ling Moyu came to Liao Songcheng in despair, handed over the last written report to him, his spirit was scattered and he couldn't concentrate at all, he didn't know what to say to him, he casually agreed a few words and came out.

The sky was gray in early summer, and it was drizzling, he didn't take an umbrella and let the rain splash on his face, remembering the few days he spent with Xiao Tian, it became an eternal memory.

For more than ten days in a row, Ling Moyu spent more than ten days in a daze, until Liao Songcheng called him, "How did you think about what I told you last time?" ”

"Last time? What's up? Ling Moyu silently remembered that he seemed to have talked about something, and he was in a terrible mood at the time, so he just said that he would go back and think about it, as for the specific matter, he couldn't remember.

"No, you didn't have amnesia, you forgot such a big thing!" Liao Songcheng said in surprise.

Ling Moyu felt a cold sweat on his back, he didn't know what he was talking about, could it be that he really delayed something big and caused serious consequences?

"Is there anything big going on?" Ling Moyu's mind cleared up all of a sudden.

"Well, you might as well come for a trip!" Liao Songcheng said helplessly.

When Ling Moyu arrived, when Liao Songcheng was in the office, it was already noon, and there was a young man in addition to Liao Songcheng, who was not a soldier in his attire.

"This is Luo Tianxing, an assistant researcher at the Jinshan Observatory in Nandu, and he is the one who discovered the asteroid." Liao Songcheng introduced Ling Moyu.

"He is the famous physics warrior Ling Moyu." Liao Songcheng said slightly teasingly.

The two shook hands politely, Ling Moyu was a little confused, he didn't know why there was an astronomy guy who got together with him, and the research of the two of them was not related.

"Since our Dr. Ling doesn't know what's going on yet, let's ask Dr. Luo to introduce the situation." Liao Songcheng said.

After listening to Luo Tianxing's introduction, Ling Moyu was dumbfounded! Only then did I know that it was another earth-shattering disaster that was about to happen!

That is, more than ten days ago, at 8 o'clock in the evening of the scorching summer, there was still a faint sunset on the horizon, Luo Tianxing drove to the Nandu Jinshan Observatory, and he was on duty today.

In the past, he would have arrived half an hour early, but today the weather was surprisingly hot, and the city famous for its stoves was breathless, and there were several car accidents on the way here, and the car was stuck in traffic on the bridge across the river for a whole hour.

Huang Xiaolin, who was waiting for him to take over, saw that he was late, and said angrily: "You still know how to come!" I thought you were going on vacation to the Southern Hemisphere. Luo Tianxing didn't say anything, he used to take over half an hour early, but today he came on time, so much so that people complained. Preparing for the handover, Huang Xiaolin slammed the door and left, Luo Tianxing can still understand her, she is going to be late for a date with her boyfriend today.

However, Luo Tianxing was full of expectations, as an ordinary manager of the observatory, in fact, it is difficult to have the opportunity to let these scientific research instruments serve their own research projects, and the use of these astronomical telescopes is by a special committee, which is responsible for allocating the use time.

Tonight was the time of a researcher at the Academy of Sciences, the star area he was going to observe was dim and invisible, and the early morning observation made him feel very tired, so he ended the observation early, and there was still nearly an hour to observe the sunrise. Luo Tianxing felt that he could use this short precious time to observe the night sky before the sun rose.

The sun showed a glimmer of golden light, and at the moment when the horizon was revealed, Luo Tianxing saw a bright spot on the edge of the sun flash and disappear. It was a bit like a coronal mass ejection, but it wasn't like it, he looked at it carefully for a while, and found nothing more, and when he saw that the successor was about to arrive, he made a note and prepared to leave work.

Luo Tianxing has a habit, in addition to doing a good job of recording the work content of his own work, he has to write a diary every day, and he takes out a notebook to write a diary while he is clean in the morning. When he wrote about the early morning observations, he was puzzled by the flashes of bright spots, which he had not observed, and whose trajectory was different from that of a normal corona.

He decided to look at the video recording, to find the recording of the time in the morning from the computer record, and to look closely at the bright spot, and the bright spot was there, not the dust on the lens, not like the corona or the sun or anything like that, was it Mercury?

The time of observation is also the time suitable for observing Mercury, Luo Tianxing hurriedly found out the orbit of Mercury, and Mercury is not in that position at this time.

What is it? Is it an asteroid? Luo Tianxing also found the international low-earth orbit asteroid joint survey record, and it took a long time to compare the more than 2,000 asteroids recorded on it.

In his mind, there was no such asteroid so close to the sun, and if it was really an asteroid, if it was captured by the sun's gravity, it would be too bad if it flew towards the earth! It's just that the current data is too limited to calculate the trajectory of this celestial body, and all this is just his conjecture, and he feels that he is a little unfounded.

It's not early, it's time to go back to catch up on sleep, after packing up his things, Luo Tianxing went downstairs and drove home, walked to the car, and stood again, what can I do when I go back.

He was reminded of the impact that struck Russia a few years ago, when a celestial body fell in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, it was a meteorite that fell. As it passes through the atmosphere, it burns and explodes, producing a large amount of debris and forming the so-called "meteorite rain". In the area of the fall, window glass broke in many buildings, and the incident has injured more than 1,200 people. No country predicted that event in advance, and it wasn't until the dashcams of local residents photographed the asteroid shining with dazzling light and hitting the earth that astronomers from all over the world woke up from a dream, and the asteroid was flying from the direction of the sun!

The meteorite, which was finally estimated to have a diameter of 17 meters and a weight of 10,000 tons, crashed into the earth at a speed of about 18 kilometers per second, with an explosive yield equivalent to 470,000 tons of yellow high explosives.

Luo Tianxing felt a little uneasy, and the sensitivity of his profession made him feel the need to study this matter in depth. Back in the office, Luo Tianxing found out the observation records, repeatedly watched and calculated the position and orbit of the point of light, although the data is incomplete, but the possibility of flying towards the earth is very large, and the time to reach the earth should not exceed 1 year.

At this time, he thought of a classmate of his who worked at the Beijing Observatory, and the longitude position of the southern capital and the capital was about the same, and if there was a telescope there that happened to be observing at that position, there should be the same observation record, which might prove his judgment, and the other party replied that he would not be able to give him the data until tomorrow.