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Asteroid 30 times more powerful than largest nuclear bomb: Why Apophis will be WATCHED when it passes Earth - Set to fly past Earth later in the decade, the massive asteroid could come as close as our TV satellites.
Asteroid 1998 HL1, the biggest space rock, will dangerously approach Earth in a couple of weeks. Asteroid 1998 HL1 is classified as “Potentially Hazardous asteroid†(PHA) by NASA. If the supergiant space rock hits the Earth, the impact event would create an explosion powerful enough to wipe out a large and populated city.
A pair of supergiant asteroids (space rocks) dubbed as 1998 FF14 and 2019 SW1 zip past the Earth on Tuesday. Earth had a very close encounter with two ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroids and our planet narrowly escaped the collision.
One of the most massive asteroids of 2022 will zoom past Earth in January at 70000 kmph - Classified as potentially hazardous, the 1994 PC1 (7482) is one massive asteroid at around a kilometre in size.
Though asteroids (space rocks) are small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun, they can bring tsunamis, shock waves and flattening winds that could be catastrophic and we are well aware of that. Of 7 lakh asteroids, four asteroids that could strike the Earth are identified as Asteroid 101955 Bennu, Asteroid 2014 JO25, Asteroid 2014 AG5 and Asteroid Apophis.