Asteroid Might Hit Earth, Destroy Humanity: NASA

On October 3, 2019, the imposing asteroid, dubbed Asteroid FT3, will sweep past our home planet.

NASA expects the flyby between 2019 and 2116 to mark the first of 165 approaches, according to the Daily Star.

The risk of cataclysm is small on any of these asteroid flybys, but if the asteroid veer off course and directly into Earth, the findings may be cataclysmic.

Asteroid FT3 is a monstrous measure of rocky objects

NASA further estimates that an amazing 55,000,000,000 kg weighs the asteroid.

If the asteroid ever hit the Earth, the rock would slam into the planet at 20.37 km per second or more than 45,500 mph at the stage of atmospheric entry.

The impact force is probable to be equivalent to TNT 2,700 megatons or  TNT 2,700,000,000 tonnes.

By comparison, in 1945, the nuclear bomb dropped on Japan's Hiroshima towards the end of World War II, ranging from 13 kilotons to 18 kilotons – TNT 13,000 to 18,000 tons.

The first day this might occur falls this year on October 3.

After that, on October 2, 2024, and then on October 3, 2025, NASA expects a little opportunity of the asteroid hitting us.

Asteroid FT3 is a space rock of the so-called Apollo type, meaning it follows an orbit comparable to that of Apollo asteroid 1862.

The trajectory also implies that the Sun is circled between Mars and Jupiter within the boundaries of the Asteroid Belt.

On March 20, 2007, NASA first spotted the rock and has since confirmed the orbit of FT3 based on a total of 14 observations.

The U.S. space agency said: "The probability of effect and related risk will tend to boost as observations are added in the unlikely situation where a specific future impact event persists until the orbit is comparatively well restricted.

"This is not too paradoxical: if an asteroid actually comes very close to the Earth, then it is impossible to rule out a collision early on.

"The likelihood of effect will tend to increase with the refining of the orbit and the elimination of alternative and safer trajectories.

"The likelihood of effect will eventually fall to zero – generally quite suddenly – or if the asteroid is on a collision path, it will continue to develop until it reaches 100%."

The risk is incredibly low, but it doesn't exist.

There is a tiny chance – about one in 11,000,000 – that in the next three months Asteroid FT3 will crash into us.

The impact probability translate into a cataclysm likelihood of 0.0000092 percent or a 99.9999908 percent chance the asteroid will miss Earth.

Noteworthy, rocky asteroids and icy comets are the remnants of the early 4.6 billion years ago solar system.

Their distinctive structure implies that they are efficiently "a look at a fossil record of planetary evolution," according to NASA.

NASA said: "Their comparatively pristine state makes the comets, asteroids, and some meteors beautiful storytellers with plenty to communicate about what the early solar system was like.

NASA added: "They can expose our origins ' secrets, chronicling the procedures and events that led to our world's birth”.

"They could provide hints as to where the water and raw materials came from that made life possible on Earth."