The chances have plummeted that a newly-discovered asteroid with the potential to wipe out a city will hit Earth on Valentine's Day 2046.
An image of Dimorphos from NASA's DART spacecraft taken moments before it slammed into the asteroid last year.PARIS - The chances have plummeted that a newly-discovered asteroid with the potential to wipe out a city will hit Earth on Valentine's Day 2046, the European Space Agency said.
Late last month the asteroid was given a one in 847 chance of hitting Earth -- but the odds rose to one in 432 on Sunday, according to the ESA's risk list. NASA has had similar but not identical estimations. He said it was normal for the impact odds of newly discovered asteroids to briefly rise before rapidly falling.
Newly discovered asteroid 2023 DW has a one in 1,584 chance of hitting Earth on Valentine's Day 2046, according to the ESABut what would happen in the increasingly unlikely event that the asteroid does strike Earth? Moissl said that an asteroid the size of 2023 DW would create"regionalised destruction" and not have a major effect on the rest of the world.
There would be a roughly 70 percent chance it lands in the Pacific Ocean, but the potential strike zone would also include the United States, Australia or Southeast Asia, Moissl said.Even if the asteroid is heading our way, the experts emphasised that the world is no longer defenceless against such a threat.
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