Last Tuesday, NASA has announced that the asteroid “2009 JF1” has a high probability of hitting Earth in 2022, lor making him number one on the Space Agency’s “major threats” list.
Through a system called Sentry, which is used to track collisions, NASA indicated the date of the impact It could happen on May 6 next year catalog the impact as the “most dangerous” of the next 100 years.
While this may sound alarming, the truth is that the chance of an accident is 0.026%.
Experts believe that in case 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 bomb on Hiroshima, which was dropped in 1945, exploded with a force of 15 kilotons.