Huge asteroid may hit earth soon, NASA warns

A huge space rock estimated to be more than one kilometre wide is heading towards Earth, Nasa has confirmed.

The asteroid is called 2002 AJ129 and could be as large as 1300 metres across, meaning it would easily wipe out a city if it whacked into our planet.

If the space rock plunged into the sea, it would cause a gigantic tsunami with the potential to wreak destruction on a truly global scale.

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Paul Chodas, manager of Nasa’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said: ‘We have been tracking this asteroid for over 14 years and know its orbit very accurately.”

It’s likely the dust and debris thrown up by the impact would linger in the air for years, causing crops to fail and potentially starving millions of people in a ‘mini Ice age‘ reports say.

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