If an asteroid 0.7 miles wide, travelling at 67,000 mph hit the Earth it would Herald a new ice age as temperatures fall 8°C around the globe and last for a decade.
Luckily, NASA have us covered and monitor all bits of space heading our way which could collide with us and announce anything they consider as a danger.
Unluckily that is exactly what NASA have done as a 0.7 miles wide asteroid named 2002 AJ129 is currently barrelling towards Earth at the speed of 67,000mph and will come within just 2.5 million miles of the planet on the 4th February.
NASA has given the rock the 'potentially hazardous' status and the National Centre for Atmospheric Research said with brilliant understatement that it: 'would not be pleasant'.
Fortunately, none of those scenarios are likely as NASA are confident that that the asteroid will pass safely by without incident but if you got plans for 5th February you may want to make sure you have kept the receipt, you know, just in case.
6 comments:
I accept and would like to thank the Big Bang who without none of this would be possible.
I did read that but NASA said they would still be monitoring space objects and the ESA said they would still be monitoring them as well so it was all okay.
NASA subsidises ESA? Since when?
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