It could wipe out London, expert warns
AN asteroid impact on Earth is “100 per cent” going to happen and experts are currently unsure they have the ability to protect us.
As every day passes, the likelihood that an asteroid strikes Earth increases, according to experts.
Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, from Queen’s University Belfast’s Astrophysics Research Centre, says one will “100 per cent” strike Earth again, and London could be completely wiped out.
The last major incident occurred in 2013 when a 20 metre meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, which smashed windows and caused injuries to more than 1,000 people.
Prior to that, in 1908, a small asteroid up to 190 metres in size exploded over Siberia’s Tunguska which ruined woodlands across 800 miles.
Amazing facts about Asteroids
The first asteroid was Ceres, discovered by "Giuseppe Piazzi" in 1801. There are currently over 600,000 known asteroids in our solar system. Most asteroids are found orbiting in the Asteroid Belt, a series of rings located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
He added: “One way to regard asteroids is that they are another form of natural disaster, like earthquakes, like volcanoes.
“They have hit us in the past and they will hit us in the future – it’s a natural process.
“But amazingly, unlike with other disasters, we don’t put our minds and our wallets to us.”
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The first asteroid was Ceres, discovered by "Giuseppe Piazzi" in 1801. There are currently over 600,000 known asteroids in our solar system. Most asteroids are found orbiting in the Asteroid Belt, a series of rings located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
He added: “One way to regard asteroids is that they are another form of natural disaster, like earthquakes, like volcanoes.
“They have hit us in the past and they will hit us in the future – it’s a natural process.
“But amazingly, unlike with other disasters, we don’t put our minds and our wallets to us.”
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