Asteroid the size of Arc de Triomphe has 1-in-7000 chance of hitting Earth in September – Mirror Online

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An asteroid almost as big Paris’s Arc de Triomphe has a 1-in-7000 chance of hitting Earth later this year, scientists claim.

The space rock is expected to whiz past our planet on September 9, according to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) list of space objects that could collide with Earth. 

Asteroid 2006 QV89 measures 130 feet (40 metres) in diameter and will likely get as close as 4.2 million miles (6.7 million kilometres) from the planet.

To put that in perspective, the moon is 238,900 miles (384,400 km) away.

Despite this, there is a 1-in-7,299 chance that it will hit the planet, according to the ESA.

At 40 metres wide, the asteroid is not big enough to wipe out civilisation, but an impact with Earth would be more powerful than the infamous Chelyabinsk Event of 2013.

In February of that year, a 65-foot (20-metre) meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk in Russia with the force of 30 Hiroshima atomic bombs.

It was the single largest recorded meteor strike in more than a century, after the Tunguska Event of 1908, which wiped out hundreds of square miles of forest in Eastern Russia.

More than 1,500 people were injured and 7,200 buildings damaged by the shock wave from the Chelyabinsk explosion, which rippled out for hundreds of miles.

NASA chief Jim Bridenstine recently warned that a killer asteroid could smash into the Earth within our lifetime, unless we do more to protect the planet.

“These events are not rare. They happen,” said Bridenstine, adding that current models suggest similarly devastating events will occur once every 60 years.

“The fact is that we’ve had three such events in the last 100 years,” he said.

There’s no need to panic about asteroid 2006 QV89 though, as the odds of it hitting us this year are extremely low.

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