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Map Monday: Earth’s collision course with asteroids

Click on the image for a better view of your impending doom.
Click on the image for a better view of your impending doom.

If you got up today full of energy and ready to tackle the week, we’re here to burst your bubble. Earth is going to get hit by an asteroid – some time or another – and NASA’s just plotted our home planet’s position in the solar system, alongside the trajectories of potentially hazardous asteroids. So potentially hazardous, that NASA even has a term for them: PHA.

To make your Monday a bit bleaker, we’re obligated to mention that there are around 1 400 of these PHAs, each estimated to be at least 140 metres in size. But NASA does say that “potentially hazardous” does mean the asteroids only get within 7.5-million kilometres of the rock we call home, and don’t pose a danger with in the next few hundred years or so.

Still, it’s worth planning ahead, right?

If you’re paranoid about your imminent destruction by asteroid then you can click through the the NASA JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Asteroid Watch website where the latest information on these extinction causing rocks is distributed.

 

 

 

 

 

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