Danger! 80-foot asteroid hurtling towards Earth today, Sept 20; collision possible?
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A huge asteroid will come terrifyingly close to Earth in a close encounter today. This asteroid has got NASA on alert. Will there be an asteroid collision with Earth?
Astonishingly, asteroids are rocky remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. They come in all shapes and sizes, with the largest asteroid measured at a humongous 530 kilometers in diameter called Vesta. Asteroids can impact Earth and cause major damage to both life and property, with the most recent incident being the Chelyabinsk disaster when the space rock entered Earth's atmosphere over the southern Ural region in Russia on February 15, 2013 and caused damage worth nearly $33 million. But will this upc...