The possibility that deadly asteroids could hit planet Earth is a very real one, scientists have said. However, despite over a million asteroids having the potential to hit us, we have only discovered one percent of those space rocks, according to Asteroid Day, a campaign set up to raise awareness of this potential future catastrophe, using 30 June each year to promote asteroid knowledge. "The more we learn about asteroid impacts, the clearer it became that the human race has been living on borrowed time," states the organisation. It has launched 100X Declaration, which calls for an increase of our asteroid discovery rate to 100 times what it is now, within the next decade. Since 2013, NASA has discovered 72 new near-Earth objects; of those, eight are classified as potentially hazardous to our planet. Though it does not believe there are any big asteroids at risk of hitting us at present, tiny space rocks like those that produced the meteor blast over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013 injuring over 1,000 people, can easily slip by undetected.
The possibility that deadly asteroids could hit planet Earth is a very real one, scientists have said. However, despite over a million asteroids having the potential to hit us, we have only discovered 1% of those space rocks, according to Asteroid Day, a campaign set up to raise awareness of this potential future catastrophe, using 30 June each year to promote asteroid knowledge. "The more we learn about asteroid impacts, the clearer it became that the human race has been living on borrowed time," states the organisation. It has launched 100X Declaration, which calls for an increase of our asteroid discovery rate to 100 times what it is now, within the next decade. Since 2013, NASA has discovered 72 new near-Earth objects; of those, eight are classified as potentially hazardous to our planet. Though it does not believe there are any big asteroids at risk of hitting us at present, tiny space rocks like those that produced the meteor blast over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013 injuring over 1,000 people, can easily slip by undetected.