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NASA said the giant asteroid – dubbed 2018 LF16 – measured 700 feet, double the London Big Ben.
The rock presents 62 trajectories of different potential impacts on our planet. Each of them is waiting to launch the asteroid to Earth in the next 100 years.
The first of these annoying opportunities will come in five years, August 8, 2023.
Other potential impacts in the near future are August 3, 2024 and August 1, 2025.
The asteroid was last seen by astronomers on June 16th.
WARNING: NASA is monitoring an asteroid that could crash on Earth (Photo: Getty)
It currently crosses the space at a speed exceeding 33,844 miles per hour.
But there is no guarantee that the asteroid crushes on Earth.
In fact, NASA estimates that the asteroid has a 30 million chance of crashing on our planet.
This translates to 99.9999967% chance of failure if the 2018 LF16 asteroid moved too close to home.
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NEAR EARTH: One is worried about the efficiency with which NASA detects the asteroids (Photo: Getty)
This particular spatial rock is considered a "zero" threat on the Turin impact risk scale, which means that its probability of collision with the Earth is almost non-existent.
Despite this, the US Space Agency will continue to closely monitor this formidable rock space.
Our solar system is filled with gigantic spatial rocks, some of which measure more than one kilometer.
We are following the movements of about 90% of them, which would wipe out humanity as they entered the Earth.
This means that there are a lot of rogue rocks that can hit our planet.
DESTRUCTION: Scientists watch the sky for asteroids that may threaten the Earth (Photo: Getty)
Astronomer Patrick Michel has already stated: "If these bodies have an impact on the Earth, they can cause regional damage in a whole country, even a continent."
The last known impact of asteroids leveled vast expanses of the Tunguska Forest in Siberia in 1908.
In 2013, a very small asteroid struck the Chelyabinsk Oblast in Russia, injuring 1,000 people with shards of glass caused by the asteroid exploding into the sky.
Fortunately, the asteroid WB105 will not come close enough to hit Earth, but its trajectory is close enough for NASA to pay attention.
IMPACT: A massive meteor crashed in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in 2013 (Photo: Getty)
TECH: Artist's view of the NEOCam spacecraft project, which would hunt asteroids (Pic: NASA)
The asteroid WB105 is what is called a near Earth object (NEO) close to a narrow Earth approach.
The NEOs are all asteroids and comets that approach our world of origin with 50 million kilometers of its orbit.
There are several ways to fight asteroids.
The first would involve a "gravity tractor", which is essentially a spacecraft designed to pull the rock on a new trajectory using its own gravitational force.
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DANGER: The dinosaurs went out when a huge asteroid crashed into the Earth (Photo: Getty)
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Others would involve blasting the stone of space with some kind of projectile to try to direct it on a new course, or even explode with a nuclear bomb.
However, it could turn against humanity because radioactive rock fragments could pour onto the planet.
Global disasters involving 10 km asteroids seem to occur less often than every 10 million years.
One of these past impacts was probably responsible for the death of the dinosaurs.
The overview comes days after Daily Star Online revealed Stephen Hawking's latest reflections on space rocks.
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