Last Tuesday, NASA has announced that the asteroid “2009 JF1” has a high probability of hitting Earth in 2022, lor which made him number one on the Space Agency’s list of “major threats.”
Through a system called Sentry, which serves to monitor collisions, NASA has indicated that the date of impact It could happen on May 6 next year categorizing the impact as “the most dangerous” of the next 100 years.
Although it sounds alarming, the truth is that the probability of an accident is 0.026%.
Experts believe that if 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 Hiroshima bomb, dropped in 1945, exploded with a force of 15 kilotons.