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.
Name one coming near woodworm then the end is near like revelations says they might not believe in the bible or so they say but you don’t ever see them naming an astroid or comet woodworm
I don’t care. I don’t care. I don’t care. I don’t care.
The world ended in 2012 🙂
Maybe we’ll get lucky and it’ll hit us square.
Too bad it won’t hit.
if it hits washington dc then we would be lucky
I hope this comes to earth and distroys this mother $#%&!@*ing full of sin planet
M$#%&!@* extinction….we couldn’t get so lucky…….
I’d be more worried about a plus on the EPT stick
Stop Terrorizing People with stories