NASA asteroid threat: New spacecraft to SMASH INTO asteroids and SAVE Earth
A meteorite the size of a school bus crashed over Russia in 2013 injuring over 1,600 people.
If it had been an asteroid the ensuing death toll would be in the hundreds of thousands.
An asteroid nicknamed The Rock came within a million miles of Earth in 2017.
NASA’s Chief Scientist Dr. James Garvin said: “If it were to ever hit earth the force would be “something on the order of 5,000 to 10,000 hydrogen bombs.”
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