Monster meteor hurtling towards Earth
Experts predict the asteroid 2000 QW7 will whiz past our planet at 23,100km/h per hour on September 14,The space rock measures up to 650m in diameter making it slightly smaller than the world’s tallest building — the 830m high Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Space X and Tesla CEO Elon Musk pointed out on Twitter last week that Earth currently had no defence against “killer” asteroids. The rogue space rock — which is taller than the Eiffel Tower — is expected to make several close passes to Earth this century, the most dangerous of which is in 2068.In the video, the initial impact in the Atlantic Ocean between southwest of the US and north of South America.In just a few hours, the resulting giant fireball and shockwave spreads as far as Kansas, nearly 4023km away from the initial impact.
They say the deadly rock’s path around the sun means there are 100 “possible collisions between Apophis and the Earth, the most dangerous of them in 2068”. “Updated computational techniques and newly available data indicate the probability of an Earth encounter on April 13, 2036, for Apophis has dropped from one-in-45,000 to about four-in-a million.”It was only spotted via a space telescope in Hawaii after it had sped by our planet, and could have caused chaos if it hit Earth.While the asteroid is not big enough to obliterate Earth, it could do some serious damage at the local level.
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