A huge asteroid is zooming towards our planet

News24xx.com -  Maybe you must preparing yourself from now, because a huge asteroid bigger than one of Britain’s most famous landmarks, St. Paul’s Cathedral has towards our planet. If the rock hit Earth, it would destroy an entire city and kill millions. 

According to NASA, the gigantic space rock is called 2016 NF23 and is heading for Earth at a speed of more than 20,000 miles per hour, which is about 15 times as fast as Concorde.

The object is up to 160 metres wide. And it will pass by at a distance of about 3 million miles on August 29 and is large enough to be considered ‘potentially hazardous’.

Luckily,  it’s not on a collision course with our planet so will not do us any damage. Humanity doesn’t need to fear gigantic asteroids big enough to wipe us off the face of the Earth, because they are easy to track due to their enormous size. 

But we should be very afraid of smaller ‘stealth asteroids’ which are big enough to wipe out a city and extremely difficult to detect.

Nasa reveal that roughly 4,300 space rocks of between 100 metres and 1 kilometre have been spotted to date. If ESA’s predictions are correct, it could mean there are actually 430,000 asteroids out there and we’ve no idea where most of them are or whether they are on a collision course with our planet. 
 

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