Checked on 2024-09-27
Probability: 0.1
Justification: The evidence provided does not specifically mention a potential asteroid strike within the next 60 years. It discusses various asteroids and their potential impact risks, but none of them are directly related to the claim.
Final Truth Score: 0.48
Description: 2007 FT3 is a so-called “lost” asteroid — it was first observed on March 20, 2007, but today’s observers can’t find it anymore. According to some estimates, in October 2024, there’s a 1-in-11-million chance of this asteroid hitting the Earth. However, NASA specialists say there’s nothing to worry about.
Click on the object designation to go to a page with full details on that object. Sentry is a highly automated collision monitoring system that continually scans the most current asteroid catalog for possibilities of future impact with Earth over the next 100 years. Whenever a potential impact is detected it will be analyzed and the results ...
In the exercise, asteroid sizes ranged from 60 to 800 meters, with the most likely size to occur being between 100 and 320 meters. To complicate the scenario, scientists said the looming asteroid ...
Watch on. This animation depicts the orbital trajectory of asteroid 99942 Apophis as it zooms safely past Earth on April 13, 2029. Earth’s gravity will slightly deflect the trajectory as the 1,100-foot-wide (340-meter-wide) near-Earth object comes within 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) of our planet’s surface.
Imagine if scientists discovered a giant asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting the Earth in about 14 years — a space rock so big that it could not only take out a city but devastate a whole region.