February 5, 2040 will crash into us asteroid

Millions of people will die. NASA astronomers have discovered a new a threat from space. Asteroid 2011 AG5 at full speed rushes to our planet for rendezvous. For the last kiss. Probability of it collisions with Earth, scientists rate it very highly: 1 to 625. Lump 140 meters wide can crash into our planet February 5, 2040 of the year. A photo from open sources It can destroy millions of people, but there will be no global catastrophe, astronomers are sure. 140 meters – still not enough to cause the same cataclysm, from which dinosaurs died 65 million years ago. Then with the Earth “kissed” an asteroid 14 km wide. Or maybe AG5 is still smaller. Its exact dimensions will be calculated between 2013 and 2016, when the asteroid approaches the Earth at a convenient observation distance. Experts are currently busy processing ways to prevent an asteroid from colliding with the Earth. Among discussed methods – the use of a space rocket, which can hook and pull the celestial body behind itself, to a safe planet orbit. – About 20 thousand potentially fly around the Earth dangerous very large – more than 140 meters in diameter – objects. A bodies like the Tunguska diameter from 30 meters – even more: 200 thousand But we of them “in person” know only a thousand. It turns out we discovered only 10 percent of everything that the planet could do harm – admitted “KP” the head of the department of physics of stellar systems Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosova Oleg Malkov. Svetlana Kuzina