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Red One Bolivia.- NASA has issued a warning regarding a huge asteroid 213 meters in diameter which could hit the earth throughout the next century causing a devastating explosion, according to Express.
This space rock, which moves at 15.13 kilometers per second is known as 2018 LF16 and was observed for the first time on June 16, 2017 by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Sentry) Sentry system, programmed to track potential risks of asteroid impact.
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According to Sentry's calculations, the closest potential impact could occur on August 8, 2023. The other dates would be August 3, 2024 and August 1, 2025. In the meantime, there are 62 2018 trajectories planned LF16when the rock could hit the Earth until 2117.
What is scary is that, if an asteroid of this size will crush us, I will do it with a power of 50 megatons, equivalent to the explosion of the Soviet hydrogen bomb known as Zar Bomb, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created, indicates the medium.
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