EXCLUSIVE: 'Mountain-sized asteroid' that could wipe out Earth heading OUR way, NASA is checking the "nearby Earth" go of the mountain-sized space rock - which measures 1.5-miles crosswise over - that will rush past the planet at 45,450mph, or 70 times the velocity of a gigantic plane, on July 25.
The "vast close shave" comes as researchers and space experts tomorrow unite to request more worldwide activity to create frameworks on Earth that could wreck or occupy a huge space rock, in the occasion one could take an immediate crash course with the planet.
The space rock because of methodology Earth toward the end of July, named 1999 JD6, is 15 times the measure of whatever else on the radar and smaller people the three later expansive passes that had a few cosmologists spooked.
These incorporated the expansive Icarus which passed five million miles away this month, the broad 1999 FN53 in May and the far reaching 2014-YB35 in March.
Today is the first ever World Asteroid Day, sponsored by Queen legend Brian May and TV stargazer Professor Brian Cox, and will see occasions occur everywhere throughout the globe including at the Science Museum in London.
Albeit 1999 JD6 is required to pass Earth securely at a separation of around four million miles, it is dreaded a stone of a comparative size will one day be on an immediate way with our planet, importance activity would need to be taken to keep the annihilation that would take after.
In the event that such an extensive space rock hit us or separated in the Earth's air, it would be similar to several atomic bombs blasting and send waves undulating crosswise over seas.
Space rock 1999 JD6 is likewise coming in much closer this time than the 12.4million miles it went by Earth on its last experience five years prior in July 2010.
In May, when 1999 FN53 went at 6.6million miles, stressed cosmologists cautioned it was an eighth of the span of Mount Everest and a crash would be out and out calamitous activating mass annihilation, seismic tremors and worldwide termination.
Bill Napier, educator of stargazing at the University of Buckinghamshire, said: "Individuals are worried around an effect from an expansive space rock, and the effect of something of this scale would be absolutely worldwide.
"It would without a doubt lead to the passings of around 1.5 billion individuals, we are taking a gander at a mass eradication of humankind.
"To comprehend the effect of something on this scale, you would need to look to the sci-fi authors, it is limitless."
Yet, coordinators of World Asteroid Day are pretty much as, if not more, worried about littler space rocks of up to 150 meters long striking the planet.
Alarmingly, a 70metre-long space rock called 2015HM10 - the span of a large fly - will skim Earth only a week after World Asteroid Day on July 7.
NASA is checking the way of this stone, which will shoot past at 18,600mph and only 275,000 miles away - just barely somewhat more than the separation from Earth to the Moon (239,000 miles).
Also, after 12 days on July 19 a "scaffold sixed" 500metre-long space rock will pass Earth at 1.5million miles.
The "vast close shave" comes as researchers and space experts tomorrow unite to request more worldwide activity to create frameworks on Earth that could wreck or occupy a huge space rock, in the occasion one could take an immediate crash course with the planet.
The space rock because of methodology Earth toward the end of July, named 1999 JD6, is 15 times the measure of whatever else on the radar and smaller people the three later expansive passes that had a few cosmologists spooked.
These incorporated the expansive Icarus which passed five million miles away this month, the broad 1999 FN53 in May and the far reaching 2014-YB35 in March.
Today is the first ever World Asteroid Day, sponsored by Queen legend Brian May and TV stargazer Professor Brian Cox, and will see occasions occur everywhere throughout the globe including at the Science Museum in London.
Albeit 1999 JD6 is required to pass Earth securely at a separation of around four million miles, it is dreaded a stone of a comparative size will one day be on an immediate way with our planet, importance activity would need to be taken to keep the annihilation that would take after.
In the event that such an extensive space rock hit us or separated in the Earth's air, it would be similar to several atomic bombs blasting and send waves undulating crosswise over seas.
Space rock 1999 JD6 is likewise coming in much closer this time than the 12.4million miles it went by Earth on its last experience five years prior in July 2010.
In May, when 1999 FN53 went at 6.6million miles, stressed cosmologists cautioned it was an eighth of the span of Mount Everest and a crash would be out and out calamitous activating mass annihilation, seismic tremors and worldwide termination.
Bill Napier, educator of stargazing at the University of Buckinghamshire, said: "Individuals are worried around an effect from an expansive space rock, and the effect of something of this scale would be absolutely worldwide.
"It would without a doubt lead to the passings of around 1.5 billion individuals, we are taking a gander at a mass eradication of humankind.
"To comprehend the effect of something on this scale, you would need to look to the sci-fi authors, it is limitless."
Yet, coordinators of World Asteroid Day are pretty much as, if not more, worried about littler space rocks of up to 150 meters long striking the planet.
Alarmingly, a 70metre-long space rock called 2015HM10 - the span of a large fly - will skim Earth only a week after World Asteroid Day on July 7.
NASA is checking the way of this stone, which will shoot past at 18,600mph and only 275,000 miles away - just barely somewhat more than the separation from Earth to the Moon (239,000 miles).
Also, after 12 days on July 19 a "scaffold sixed" 500metre-long space rock will pass Earth at 1.5million miles.
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