On May 14th, the gigantic asteroid 1999 FN53 will blow past the Earth approximately 26.5 lunar distances away, or 6,360,000 miles. While a drastic change of trajectory could put the asteroid on a collision course with our planet, it is highly unlikely.
However, due to the colossal size of the rock, which is roughly an eighth of the size of Mount Everest, the event leads many to speculate what would happen if the asteroid did hit the Earth. What could possibly happen?
One professor of astronomy, Bill Napier, at the University of Buckinghamshire, states that an impact of this proportion would kill off about 20% of the Earth’s population. “It would undoubtedly lead to the deaths of around 1.5 billion people, we are looking at a mass extinction of humanity.”While many are panicking, there is an even larger asteroid that is expected to hurtle past even closer to Earth in June.
Check over on the Next Page to see what would happen if an asteroid of this size did actually strike us.
Hope it lands in Baltimore
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Who exactly is …..everyone? Dumb as rocks!
Not worried Bout it!
Good maybe it will hit the white house with Obama and his wife in it.
Obama will name it the Obama Roid. And we will have to pay taxes on it.
Painted a target on my house ….hope it hots here first
Maybe it will suck up all the dumb $#%&!@* redneck racists and hurdle them deep into space
Glad I Bought extra Beer ..
Hope it’s not white, don’t need Al Nottosharp to start an intergalactic racial crusade