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[ad_1] Just how dangerous can an asteroid strike on Earth be? The horrific damage a 1500-foot asteroid can do is detailed here. With thousands of asteroids floating around our planet, it is a matter of when, and not if, an asteroid will strike. Luckily, anyone who is alive on this planet at the moment has never witnessed an actual asteroid strike where the size of the space rock was larger than a few metres. The closest we came was the Chelyabinsk incident where the incoming asteroid exploded in the sky and still managed to injure thousands because of the shockwave. Just a couple weeks ago another one struck Earth, but only small remnants landed. So, what if a 1500-foot asteroid were to strike Earth tomorrow. For example, New York, a crowded megalopolis. How horrific will the damage b...

[ad_1] In 2021, the asteroid 2021 UA1 came so close to the Earth that it could have easily smashed into the planet and caused a disaster. Know all about our planet’s escape. We keep reading about asteroids flying past the Earth on a regular basis but we don't actually realize how terrifyingly close these space rocks can get and the scale of destruction they can inflict on our planet if they smash into it. But every now and then, an asteroid gets pulled by the Earth's gravity and gives us a glimpse of the disaster these terrifying asteroids can bring about. We all know about the Chelyabinsk incident in 2013 when a 20-meter wide meteor exploded above the Russian city and just the sonic boom was enough to break the glass of skyscrapers and cause heavy infrastructure damage in a large rad...

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1500-foot asteroid strike! HORRIFIC damage; THESE many people will be killed on Earth

This asteroid came SHOCKINGLY close to Earth; humans were just inches away from tragedy