Brian Cox warns thousands of future asteroids ‘could hit us’ like ’50 Hiroshima bombs’

“The thing about probability is that they’re not certainties. Until we see one coming, and until we can one’s orbit, we can’t say with any certainty that the next one will hit.”

To be clear, there is currently no known threat of an asteroid colliding with Earth in the next century.

NASA is constantly watching the cosmos, categorising any Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) as Potentially Hazardous Objects (PHO) if they could pose a threat to life on Earth.

And experts at Planetary Defence Conference have been running drills for years should an asteroid head towards Earth.

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Article source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1544536/brian-cox-asteroid-warning-50-hiroshima-bombs-dont-look-up-netflix