A HUGE asteroid twice the size of the Empire State Building skimmed the Earth last night at 14,400mph.Asteroid that is twice the height of the Empire State Building skimmed past EarthThe space rock measures up to 2,132ft in diameter, making it slightly smaller than the world's tallest building - the 2,722ft-high Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Replying to a Tweet about the asteroid Apophis, which will scrape past Earth in 2029, Musk pointed out that there is, currently, no defence system to protect our planet. YouTube user Space Sim, who created the video, said debris from the blast would rain back on Earth as fiery asteroids. They say the deadly rock's path around the sun means there are 100 "possible collisions between Apophis and the Earth, the most dangerous of them in 2068".
"Updated computational techniques and newly available data indicate the probability of an Earth encounter on April 13, 2036, for Apophis has dropped from one-in-45,000 to about four-in-a million."It was only spotted via a space telescope in Hawaii after it had sped by our planet, and could have caused chaos if it hit Earth.While the asteroid is not big enough to obliterate Earth, it could do some serious damage at the local level.
Dang it!
Awww that was a swing and a miss
Spinning ball earth theory still gaining popularity, even with cartoons evidence
And we're still here.
It missed, that's all that matters!!
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