NASA does not expect Earth to collide with dangerous asteroids in the foreseeable future. This was stated by the head of NASA's planetary research department, Laurie Glaze, RIA Novosti reports.
She reassured the earthlings, noting that no known space objects pose a threat of collision with the Earth in the next hundred years.
On October 19, American astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson warned that a refrigerator-sized asteroid would approach Earth on November 2, the day before the US presidential election. According to him, asteroid 2018VP1, a huge space rock, “rushes towards us at a speed of more than 25 thousand miles per hour.” The scientist suggested that a space body can touch the Earth, but will not cause harm. NASA later calculated that the probability of an asteroid entering the Earth's atmosphere is only one in 240, or 0.41 percent.
In August, Roskosmos recorded 80 approaches of asteroids to the Earth, 70 of which were not previously known. Another 10 were opened in 2007-2018. One of the asteroids passed the Earth at a distance of eight thousand kilometers, the rest passed further.
