Nasa Asteroid Warning: 700-Foot-Wide Space Rock On 62 Risk Trajectories With Earth By 2023 express.co.uk

The nearest potential impact date with the asteroid, dubbed Asteroid 2018 LF16, falls on August 8, 2023. The asteroid could then cross paths with the Earth’s orbit again on August 3, 2024, and August 1, 2025. In total, there are 62 dates on which the space rock could hit the Earth, although the risk of this cataclysm happening is pretty low.
But the sheer size and number of potential impact dates make the space rock and incredibly formidable object to track.
At the moment, the asteroid is barreling through space at more than 33,844mph or 15.13km per second.
A space rock this big is about twice as tall as Big Ben’s clock tower in London, twice the height of the Statue of Liberty in New York and is four times as tall as Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square.

Some asteroids are very large, and would cause enormous destruction

European Space Agency (ESA)

If that is not terrifying enough, the impact force of an object this big could be as big as the Tsar Bomba’s 50 Megaton blast – the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated on the surface of the planet.

Thankfully, according to the European Space Agency (ESA), asteroids this large tend to strike the Earth less than once every 1,000 years.

And it would require a significantly larger asteroid upwards of six-miles-wide (10km) to witness an extinction level event comparable to that of the dinosaur-killing asteroid 65 million years ago.