If you’ve already booked dinner with a couple for Valentine’s Day in 2046, you might want to reconsider your plans, as NASA has now revealed it believes Earth could be in danger of being hit by a asteroid on that date.
Quite a Valentine’s Day gift indeed, but NASA said its calculations indicate an Olympic-size swimming pool asteroid could hit the planet. And that might be the big word here, as NASA claims it should come 1.1 million miles closer to Earth, but as with any calculation when you factor in over 20 years of change, the trajectory of the asteroid could see it colliding. for our planet.
In fact, the odds have been reduced to an impact probability of 1 in 560 on the Turin Impact Hazard Scale, it is the only asteroid on NASA’s radar to have such a high rating. For those wondering what accounts for this scale in regular human speech, NASA says an impact is “extremely unlikely” there “It’s not a matter of public interest.”
However, with the progress made in recent years, an asteroid impact in 20 years does not seem exaggerated.
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Thanks BBC.