NASA asteroid WARNING: Asteroid could unleash ‘enormous devastation’ if it hit Earth

The most notable example of this is the 2013 Chelyabinsk Meteor, which exploded over Chelyabinsk Oblast in Russia six years ago.

The 65.6ft-wide (20m) space rock remained undetected as it hurled directly at Earth from the direction of the Sun.

The Chelyabinsk Meteor exploded in the air over Russia with 30-times the force of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb.

More than 1,500 people were injured and more than 7,000 buildings were damaged by the resulting airblast.

NASA Planetary Defense Officer Lindley Johnson: “The Chelyabinsk event drew widespread attention to what more needs to be done to detect even larger asteroids before they strike our planet.”

But Asteroid BW1 is not set to come as close to Earth – instead being dubbed as a “Near-Earth Object” (NEOs).

NEOs are comets and asteroids on orbital trajectories, which bring them incredibly close to the Earth.