Possibility Of An Asteroid Hitting Earth Very High, warns Scientist...

Scientists warn that an asteroid hitting earth is inevitable, and it could happen soon.
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In what could be equated as another doomsday scenario, a scientist from Queen's University Belfast, in Northern Ireland, warns that the possibility of an asteroid hitting the earth could be higher than widely thought.

He even went ahead and said that the event could occur "soon" and equated the anticipated destruction to the catastrophe of the Tunguska event of 1908, when a meteoroid exploded in orbit above a Siberian forest in Russia, completely devastating the area around for hundreds of miles.

The event at Tunguska had taken place on the 30th of June, 1908 and this date has been observed as the World Asteroid Day in remembrance of that fateful day ever since.

The scientist, Alan Fitzsimmons, in a statement released by the University said while explaining the warnings:

It is important to know that scientists and engineers have made great strides in detecting Near-Earth Asteroids and understanding the threat posed by them. Over 1,800 potentially hazardous objects have been discovered so far, but there are many more waiting to be found.

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Possibility Of An Asteroid Hitting Earth Very High, warns Scientists.