Last Tuesday NASA has announced that the asteroid “2009 JF1” has a high probability of colliding with Earth in 2022, lor which has made it number one on the Space Agency’s list of “biggest threats”.
Through a system called Sentry, which is used to monitor collisions, NASA indicated that the date of the impact could happen on May 6 next year, cataloging the imapcto as the “most dangerous” of the next 100 years.
While this sounds alarming, the truth is that the odds of the shock happening are 0.026%.
Experts believe that in the event that it hits our planet, an explosion equivalent to the detonation of 230 kilotons of dynamite would occur. This explosion would be devastating given that the Hiroshima bomb, dropped in 1945, exploded with a force of 15 kilotons.