Space experts warn Earth will be struck by asteroid in the future with 100% Certainty

Space experts warn Earth will be struck by asteroid in the future with 100% Certainty

A major group fighting to save the world from catastrophic events has made a stark warning about the rogue space rocks.  The B612 Foundation is made up of former astronauts and scientists who focus on defending Earth from the apocalypse. In 2005, Nasa said 90% of discovered asteroids which are at least 140m in diameter pose no immediate threat. But millions of asteroids in the 15m to 140m range are “near-Earth” And it is estimated only around 18,000 are tracked globally and the majority are not even monitored, reports News.com.au.  Lasers and nuclear weapons could hypothetically be used to destroy an incoming asteroid, however the experts believe we wouldn’t even know about the asteroids until they hit. B612 foundation president Danica Remy said that operational telescopes can only pick up a small number of asteroids. “The telescopes’ field of view is very small and the sky is very big,” Ms Remy said. READ MORE