A large asteroid that could someday be headed directly for Earth would pack a tremendous impact force 1,500 times that of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs combined, the newspaper Express warned.
The British daily cites NASA sources as claiming that the space rock, measuring nearly 700 feet across, could have a staggering 62 different potential impact trajectories with Earth with each of them potentially able to set the asteroid on a collision course with us over the next 100 years.
According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), asteroid 2018 LF16 was last spotted on 16 June with calculations showing that the space boulder could smash into our planet sometime before 2117.
The first such scary encounter will come just five years from now, on 8 August, 2023 with other close impact dates being 3 August, 2024 and 1 August, 2025.
Even worse, the asteroid is currently hurtling through space at a speed of over 33,844 miles an hour.
An asteroid this big would pack a tremendous impact force equal to that of the 57-megaton Tsar Bomb the Soviet Union exploded in 1961.
how is this accurate?
The first such scary encounter will come just five years from now, on 8 August, 2023 with other close impact dates being 3 August, 2024 and 1 August, 2025.
pls explain … by my count, 5 years from now (April 8, 2022 publication dater of the article) would be Aug 8, 2027
Yes. The asteroids name has 2018 in it.
My belief is that this article was written in 2018. I, too, questioned the math and could really only come up with that logic.
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Reading comprehension anyone? It’s only spelled out clearly in black & white for you….
My belief
Is they meant 5 months from
Now. Not years.
That’s still not 2023 though
If you read. It says it was last spotted June 16th 2018. So 5 years is 2023. What gets me is how do they predict the breaking of the asteroid? And if it’s only going to break 3 times that leaves 233’ of asteroids each year. If it breaks it should have more breakage off the main. Lots gets burnt on entering earth’s atmosphere. If they know it’s going to break apart they know where it’s going to hit. I understand the year it would take to come back. Haileys comet does it every 76 years?
Sometime before 2117? So from 2022~2117… that’s vague! How can I believe this ?
Until that time you probably won’t be alive, so it’s not your problem, what will happen in 2117 :)))