Football field-sized asteroid could strike Earth this year

Jun 7, 2019

Football field-sized asteroid could strike Earth this year

Jun 7, 2019

(Fox News) – An enormous asteroid with a diameter wider than a football field has a roughly one in 7,000 chance of hitting the Earth later this year. However, it’s nothing to lose sleep over. Known as asteroid 2006 QV89, the space rock, which has a diameter of 164 feet, could potentially hit the planet on Sept. 9, 2019, according to a list of the most concerning space objects compiled by the European Space Agency. The ESA has 2006 QV89 ranked fourth on its top ten list.  According to current modeling, it’s likely that

2006 QV89, which is on the risk list but not the priority list, will pass Earth at a distance of more than 4.2 million miles. The ESA does note that the likelihood of its model being off is less than one-hundredth of one percent. The space rock was discovered on August 29, 2006, by the Catalina Sky Survey. Although extremely rare, asteroids have hit the planet previously and caused significant damage. In 1908, there was an enormous explosion near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate, Russia, that flattened roughly 770 square miles of forest, likely due to a meteorite. It is now known as the Tunguska event. READ MORE


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