A new study claims that the risk of killer asteroids hitting Earth is unlikely in the next 1,000 years, but small ones still pose a threat.
. According to these new findings, the asteroid with the highest risk of collision with Earth is the asteroid 1994 PC1, which is roughly a kilometer wide. It only has a 0.000151 percent chance of passing within the Moon’s orbit, roughly 10 times the risk posed by other asteroids in the study.
The researchers involved with the study looked at the orbits of almost 1,000 near-Earth objects , which were larger than a kilometer in size. Over the course of the next 1,000 years, they didn’t see any that seemed like they might come close to colliding with Earth. That, of course, doesn’t rule the chance out completely, but it does offer some comfort as far as the risk of killer asteroids goes.
While the risk of killer asteroids hitting Earth is low over the next 1,000 years, that doesn’t mean there aren’t any risks from smaller asteroids. Asteroids large enough to destroy cities or create large craters in our planet capable of creating tsunamis, earthquakes, and other natural disasters are all still possible, though not extremely likely.
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