FOUR huge asteroids to past Earth over the next week
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FOUR huge asteroids, including one the size of an eight-storey tower block, that each could destroy a city or WORSE are set to brush past the Earth over the next WEEK.
NASA is monitoring the "close Earth" flybys as just a small deviation in their orbit could see them on a collission course with the planet.
The first, expected to pass by on Friday is a 110-metre long space rock that the US space agency has been aware of since 2007.
NASA experts say anything from 150-metres in length upwards would have the potential to cause global devastation should it land in the sea, by causing tsunamis, or on dry land.
Scientists this week moved to quell growing fears that a monster asteroid will crash into our planet destroying humanity in late September, after conspiracy theorists' claims went viral online.
But www.express.co.uk can reveal they will also monitor three jumbo jet-sized asteroids of between 33 and 46 metres, which will also pass near to our planet on Saturday, Wednesday and Thursday respectively
An asteroid of around that size hitting the earth would not lead to the end of world, but if it struck in a populated area it could cause horrific local destruction, death and injury.
A spokesperson said: "NASA knows of no asteroid or comet currently on a collision course with Earth, so the probability of a major collision is quite small.
"In fact, as best as we can tell, no large object is likely to strike the Earth any time in the next several hundred years."
They are also developing strategies to help to identify asteroids that might pose a risk of hitting Earth and developing options for planetary defence.
NASA has dismissed the idea that a large asteroid or comet for that matter is on a collision course with the earth. Moreover, most asteroids coming to earth are said to be destroyed by the earth's atmosphere, disabling them to reach and hit the earth. A NASA spoke person added that "no large object is likely to strike the Earth any time in the next several hundred years."
NASA has dismissed the idea that a large asteroid or comet for that matter is on a collision course with the earth. Moreover, most asteroids coming to earth are said to be destroyed by the earth's atmosphere, disabling them to reach and hit the earth. A NASA spoke person added that "no large object is likely to strike the Earth any time in the next several hundred years."
If they found an asteroid in our trajectory in the next few years that's supposed to hit earth in 2030 or something like that
The madness that will ensue People will have nothing to lose
It's gonna be the main headline news for 20 ****ing years
I'm likely gonna do an "Into The Wild" scenario and live all by myself in the wilderness
