Asteroid Warning: Major Impact In 2069 Predicted By Nostradamus?

Nostradamus, a French astrologer who lived in the 1500s, predicted that a 1,260-meter asteroid will hit Earth in the year 2069 and cause a major catastrophe.

According to a report, a Nostradamus prophecy expert shared what he believes to be a future meteorite impact of cataclysmic proportions based on one of the French astrologer’s infamous forecasts. Mario Reading, who authored the book, “Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies for the Future,” said that he has deciphered clues from Nostradamus’ Quatrain 1, 69 that allude to a possible meteorite impact in the near future.

“The great mountain, seven stades around. After peace, war, hunger, flood. Will roll far, destroying great swathes of country. Even antiquities, and mighty foundations,” the prophecy reads.

Reading said that the mountain in the poem could be a meteorite and that the term “stade” during Nostradamus’ time referred to “a unit of measurement equivalent to about 180 meters.” Because of this, Reading believes that the “mountain seven stades around” could mean a mountain-like meteorite that measures 1,260 meters or 1380 yards.

“One presumes that Nostradamus is talking about an asteroid strike here, for we know that an asteroid of more than one kilometer in circumference, traveling at circa 30 kilometers per second, would have a humungous impact on all terrestrial life, equivalent to maybe 5,000 times the most powerful atomic warhead we possess,” Reading said.

He also went on to say that such an impact could cause tsunamis that measure 2,624 feet above sea level. If that is not disconcerting enough, IBTimes earlier reported that a NASA video depicting all known asteroids that passed through our solar system from Jan. 1, 1999 to Jan. 31, 2018 showed an increase in near-Earth collisions which occurred during the last two decades. This is an alarming thought considering the catastrophic outcomes that could have happened if any of these asteroids actually made its way to Earth.

In the video, blue dots that represent near-Earth asteroids clearly showed that there have been an increase in near-Earth collisions appearing over the 20-year time-lapse.

A near-Earth object (NEO) is identified as a “solar system body where its closest approach to the Sun is less than 1.3 astronomical units.” NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explained the video as a “map of the increased count of all known asteroids in the solar system between Jan. 1, 1999 and Jan. 31, 2018. Blue represents near-Earth asteroids. Orange represents main-belt asteroids between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.”

Recently, astronomers also discovered a new interstellar comet passing through our solar system “at speeds of around 30km per second or more than 67,000mph.” The comet is said to be bigger than the mysterious asteroid ʻOumuamua, which was discovered back in 2017.

Could all these astronomic events lead to the big impact predicted by Nostradamus in 2069? Only time will tell.