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July 25th: 1.5-mile-wide asteroid capable of killing us all will pass by Earth
Mountain-sized space rock will fly past our planet. This enormous asteroid has the ability to completely destroy life on Earth.
The dimension of this asteroid is 1.5-miles across and it moves at a speed of 45,450 mph.
NASA has estimated that this asteroid will shoot past our planet on July 25 at a distance of around four million miles. This asteroid under the name of 1999 JD6 is 15 times larger than anything else that has recently passed by our planet.
However, there are some concerns that one day a similar asteroid could strike and completely devastate the Earth. And this asteroid is closer to Earth now than it has been on a previous occasion in July 2010.
According to professor of astronomy at the University of Buckinghamshire, Bill Napier, an impact of such size could kill around 1.5 billion people and initiate disastrous events on a global scale.
This and other similar topics will be discussed at a World Asteroid Day. This event will take place on the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska asteroid strike. The Tunguska asteroid strike is considered to be one of the most recent major collisions in the world history.
