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NASA's InSight probe has successfully landed on Mars, becoming the latest to extract data from the red planet. This milestone event is another step forward for the human race, but the realization of this achievement is another NASA discovery. This year's research has identified an asteroid that can have multiple impacts over the next decade. The closest opportunity for the asteroid to hit is 2025.
NASA has identified a space monster that could strike with the force of the most dangerous nuclear bomb in the world.
NASA has found an asteroid named 2018 LF16 that may leave the Earth in flames, but the odds are astronomical.
It is virtually guaranteed that LF16 will miss, with virtually zero chances of any kind of contact with the Earth's surface.
NASA's calculations are 99.9999967% for a misfire, which represents a 30 million chance that the world will be affected.
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Although the asteroid probably does not hit us, the size and speed of the object make it an alarming presence.
The asteroid LF16 is huge and is 200 meters wide and four times the height of the Nelson column of Trafalgar Square.
At the present time, the space rock is booming at extreme speeds of 33,844 mph, with speed and size combined causing damage on impact.
In the scenario of LF16 striking the planet, the result would be as powerful as the devastating Tsar Bomba.
Detonated in 1950, the Russian hydrogen bomb had a power equivalent to 50 megatonnes of TNT and LF16 would not have much trouble competing with that.
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has discussed the chances that an asteroid will hit the Earth and its destructive effect on an asteroid such as LF16.
ESA said: "Some asteroids are very large and would cause enormous destruction if they hit the Earth, but their estimated population in our solar system is rather small and more than 90% of them would have been discovered. None of these presents any risk of impact.
"Some are very small (less than 10 m in diameter) and only a tiny fraction of the estimated population has been discovered, but any impact would be safe.
"The main challenge comes from the population of medium-sized objects, ranging from a few tens to several hundred meters in diameter."
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The 2018 asteroid LF16 could also make a landing in the years following 2023, while a total of 62 dates mark the moment the rock could enter the atmosphere.
The nearest date is August 8, 2023 and the next two are August 3, 2024 and August 1, 2025.
None of these dates is likely to produce an impact of any kind.
On the NASA Torino Impact Hazard Scale scale, which is used to measure the danger posed by an asteroid, the value is zero out of 10.
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