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The asteroid – named 441987 (2010 NY65) – is marked as a concern because it's 230 metres in diameter and travelling just 7.9 lunar distances (that's about three million km) from us.
[...] If it were to strike, its weight could impact with a force 300 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb, scientists have predicted.
2010 NY65 was discovered on July 10, 2010 by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft and is expected to make yearly close approaches to Earth until 2022.
It might sound far-fetched, but experts have warned that an asteroid crash that would wipe out humanity could be imminent.
Dr Alan Fitzsimmons, speaking ahead of asteroid week this month, said there is currently nothing we can do to stop a large space rock heading our way – and the impact would be catastrophic.
Well, an asteroid impact is certainly one way to solve all our problems.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Unixnut on Monday June 26 2017, @06:48PM
To be honest, I fully expect humans to kill each other even after an asteroid hit, primarily over what resources are left, any power vacuums that suddenly formed, down to whose fault it was that the gods were angry enough to bring the asteroid in the first place.
So don't worry, I fully expect us to kill each other no matter what happens, short of an actual extinction event, at which point we will be too busy dying en-mass to get many kills in.