And how big would an asteroid really have to be to actually destroy our planet?
Scientists have discovered a huge asteroid that occasionally crosses Earth's orbit around the sun, giving rise to the possibility that it could one day collide with our planet in the far distant future.survey being carried out by scientists using the Dark Energy Camera with the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter telescope in Chile.
However, would it be a"planet killer" as its name implies? Not really, according to the Earth Impact Effects Program asteroid impact model. The model also states that Earth as whole would not be strongly disturbed by the impact and would lose negligible mass. In addition, there would not be any noticeable changes to Earth's tilt or its orbit.
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