New coverage presented by Al-Youm Al-Saba TV, about 5 asteroids that are likely to hit Earth in the coming centuries, prompting space agencies around the world to closely monitor them to identify risks and avoid them in a timely manner.
NASA says more than 100 tons of rocky particles hit Earth every day, but asteroids the size of a football field only hit Earth every 2,000 years.
But asteroids that could end civilization, like the kind that wiped out the dinosaurs, collide with Earth every few million years, and any rocks of that size are closely watched.
The 5 asteroids that are likely to be dangerous and threaten the planet Earth come in the coming years..according to astronomers, as follows:
2023 DW The “Valentine’s Day Asteroid” .. and the expected date for it will be February 14, 2046
Experts warned this week that this asteroid could cause an explosion similar to the Tunguska event, which led to the removal of more than 80 million trees, but experts said that the chances of this asteroid colliding with Earth are very slim.
“Bennu” .. and the expected date of its collision with Earth will be: September 24, 2182
It is an asteroid slightly wider than the size of the Empire State Building in New York, and it was visited by NASA’s “Osiris-Rex” spacecraft in 2020.
Professor Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona said earlier that the Bennu impact would release “three times more energy than all nuclear weapons detonated in history. The impact would release energy equivalent to 1,450 megatons of TNT.”
“2010RF12“..Why is it expected that it will hit the Earth on the date: September 5, 2095
This asteroid is classified as the most likely to hit our planet in the next century, and yet there is no reason to panic, because it is very small.
So instead of hitting the Earth’s surface it would probably burn up in a massive blast of air in the upper atmosphere, and the only thing that would make it to Earth were gravel.
“1950 ANDHe is expected to hit Earth on the date: March 16, 2880
Although it is classified among the list of dangerous asteroids, especially given its size, it will not reach Earth for another eight centuries.
Toutatis”“..and it is expected that he will collide with the earth: in the year 2562
This huge asteroid is three miles wide, and it came very close to Earth in 2004, and then sparked a wave of unwarranted predictions of doom.
But NASA said that it is not expected to hit the ground, but it is expected that it will pass near the ground only..
