No, nothing special. It's I think the fourth scare story this year, or could be the fifth. Depends which ones you notice I think. The biggest ones I remember in the past are the 2012 one, and the year 2000 one.
To get an idea of how common these stories are, see See this list of predictions of the end of the world. Also this list of 242 predictions of the end of the world.
And if you are coming to this from a Christian perspective, you might be interested in my answer Robert Walker's answer to Why did God create the world if he was just going to destroy it at Armageddon?
As for the asteroid prediction, well if you look into it, it's a rather small asteroid of no more than about 300 meters that's going to miss Earth by 21 times the distance to the Moon - about 700 times the diameter of the Earth. If it did hit some time in the future, it's too small to have global effects on the Earth (needs to be 1 - 10 km for that), though large enough to have large scale regional effects potentially.
Why that particular asteroid has hit the news, of all the asteroids that pass by Earth every year at similar distances, I don't know.
For instance in January a larger asteroid about 500 meters across passed far closer than this to the Earth, at a distance of 1.2 million kilometers, or a little over three times the distance to the Moon. So more than one and a half times larger, and a seventh of the distance from Earth. But this didn't lead to any Armageddon predictions at all as far as I know.
Mountain-Size Asteroid to Fly by Earth Monday: How NASA Will Watch - artist's impression.
So it seems pretty much random whether people get worked up about an asteroid flyby or just ignore it and leave it to the astronomers to get excited about it.
And the whole thing about blood Moons - the moon always goes red during lunar eclipse. It's red from the light of the combined sunsets and dawns of everwhere on the world where the sun is rising or setting at the time of the eclipse. Nothing at all to do with blood. And this happens during every lunar eclipse.
For some reason recently people have taken to calling a set of I think it is four lunar eclipses a blood Moon. But why again I've no idea, it's got no historical precedence. Just a new term that people have started to use recently.
See: Robert Walker's answer to Is the hype surrounding the upcoming "Four Blood Moons" limited to Christians, or is it of secular interest as well?
and: Robert Walker's answer to What are the chances of Asteroid 2012 TT5 hitting the Earth on September 24, 2015?
I see you (questioner) just added a thing about CERN creating a mini black hole. Do you mean the LHC? That's possible according to some theories. They did a safety review of this before starting the experiment.
The conclusion was that the energies they use at the LHC are much less than the energies you get in collisions due to high energy cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere. So we aren't really going into new physics, just more controllable than cosmic rays.
According to some of the theories, tiny quantum black holes could form - but if so immediately decay via Hawkings radiation. Anyway if they do form, they also form in cosmic ray showers (despite the name a "Cosmic ray" is a very high energy proton hitting our upper atmosphere, and they are very fast, close to the speed of light, at speeds we can't yet achieve in our particle accelerator experiments on the Earth - basically they are created in natural stellar sized or larger particle accelerators in space and we'd need to build similarly huge accelerators to duplicate those energies, so, with current technology anyway, we won't be making protons quite so fast as that any time soon).
So if LHC did detect quantum black holes, that would mean Earth is perpetually bombarded by decaying mini quantum black holes that form in the atmosphere due to impacts of these near to speed of light protons. Which obviously is harmless as Earth is still here after billions of years of this.
See Angels & Demons - The science behind the story
So far no quantum black holes have been found but they continue to search
Large Hadron Collider finds no signatures of microscopic black holes
Detection of mini black holes at the LHC could indicate parallel universes in extra dimensions
To get an idea of how common these stories are, see See this list of predictions of the end of the world. Also this list of 242 predictions of the end of the world.
And if you are coming to this from a Christian perspective, you might be interested in my answer Robert Walker's answer to Why did God create the world if he was just going to destroy it at Armageddon?
As for the asteroid prediction, well if you look into it, it's a rather small asteroid of no more than about 300 meters that's going to miss Earth by 21 times the distance to the Moon - about 700 times the diameter of the Earth. If it did hit some time in the future, it's too small to have global effects on the Earth (needs to be 1 - 10 km for that), though large enough to have large scale regional effects potentially.
Why that particular asteroid has hit the news, of all the asteroids that pass by Earth every year at similar distances, I don't know.
For instance in January a larger asteroid about 500 meters across passed far closer than this to the Earth, at a distance of 1.2 million kilometers, or a little over three times the distance to the Moon. So more than one and a half times larger, and a seventh of the distance from Earth. But this didn't lead to any Armageddon predictions at all as far as I know.
So it seems pretty much random whether people get worked up about an asteroid flyby or just ignore it and leave it to the astronomers to get excited about it.
And the whole thing about blood Moons - the moon always goes red during lunar eclipse. It's red from the light of the combined sunsets and dawns of everwhere on the world where the sun is rising or setting at the time of the eclipse. Nothing at all to do with blood. And this happens during every lunar eclipse.
Moon goes red like this for every lunar eclipse - sometimes redder than other times depending on the atmospheric conditions on Earth. This is the combined light from the sunrises and sunsets occurring at the time of eclipse, and nothing to do with blood.This is what it would look like from the Moon.
Artist's impression of the Earth seen from the Moon during a lunar eclipse with the landscape red with the sunsets and sunrises of all the places on Earth where it is rising or setting at the time of the eclipse.
For some reason recently people have taken to calling a set of I think it is four lunar eclipses a blood Moon. But why again I've no idea, it's got no historical precedence. Just a new term that people have started to use recently.
See: Robert Walker's answer to Is the hype surrounding the upcoming "Four Blood Moons" limited to Christians, or is it of secular interest as well?
and: Robert Walker's answer to What are the chances of Asteroid 2012 TT5 hitting the Earth on September 24, 2015?
I see you (questioner) just added a thing about CERN creating a mini black hole. Do you mean the LHC? That's possible according to some theories. They did a safety review of this before starting the experiment.
The conclusion was that the energies they use at the LHC are much less than the energies you get in collisions due to high energy cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere. So we aren't really going into new physics, just more controllable than cosmic rays.
According to some of the theories, tiny quantum black holes could form - but if so immediately decay via Hawkings radiation. Anyway if they do form, they also form in cosmic ray showers (despite the name a "Cosmic ray" is a very high energy proton hitting our upper atmosphere, and they are very fast, close to the speed of light, at speeds we can't yet achieve in our particle accelerator experiments on the Earth - basically they are created in natural stellar sized or larger particle accelerators in space and we'd need to build similarly huge accelerators to duplicate those energies, so, with current technology anyway, we won't be making protons quite so fast as that any time soon).
So if LHC did detect quantum black holes, that would mean Earth is perpetually bombarded by decaying mini quantum black holes that form in the atmosphere due to impacts of these near to speed of light protons. Which obviously is harmless as Earth is still here after billions of years of this.
See Angels & Demons - The science behind the story
So far no quantum black holes have been found but they continue to search
Large Hadron Collider finds no signatures of microscopic black holes
Detection of mini black holes at the LHC could indicate parallel universes in extra dimensions
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