More than 1,400 asteroids orbit the Earth, large enough to end human life.
The United States Aerospace Agency (NASA) monitors potentially dangerous objects around the earth. If a comet or asteroid orbiting within 7.4 million kilometers of Earth and measuring more than 100 meters in diameter, NASA will follow up to predict their potential for collision with Earth.
According to NASA, 1,400 asteroids are known to be potentially dangerous. Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory project office has been monitoring and publishing information about them since 1998.
However, a NASA official said, “We haven’t found a disturbing asteroid threat for hundreds of years.”
Scientists believe that an asteroid collision on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula reduced the species on Earth by 50%, causing the Late Cretaceous dinosaurs to become extinct.
On average, an asteroid-sized basketball will be burned in Earth’s atmosphere every day, car-sized asteroids collide with the atmosphere several times a year to create pods.
Scientists have found that the symbol for asteroid RQ36 has a collision probability of 1/1000, capable of destroying life on earth in 2182.
