Around 400 asteroid impacts may destroy the planet between the years 2017-2113, scientists say

New data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) which was recently revealed has made scientists believe that around 400 asteroid impacts with the earth between the years 2017 and 2113 could possibly destroy the planet.

Reports show that previously unknown asteroid belt located in deep space could hit the Earth by 2017. Accordingly, this can destroy life on earth.

Physicist Professor Brian Cox has recently claimed that a bus-sized asteroid, named 2014 EC, came within 61,637 kilometers near Earth in March.

This, according to some experts can cause rain for a period of 100 years which could cause the climate to change.

The strike by either an asteroid or debris from a comet could have devastating effect as the atmospheric chemistry will be upset by cutting out sunlight, Professor Bill Napier, an astronomy expert at the University of Buckingham said.

He said that the more immediate risk comes from sub-kilometer of smaller asteroids, where tens of thousands are seen in space, the more capable of causing damage on a regional scale.

‘Duende,’ also known as Asteroid 2012 DA14, which was discovered on February 23, 2012 by astronomers at the Observatorio Astronomico de la Sagra in Spain, currently has less than a one per cent chance of hitting but scientists cannot rule out the possibility that it might clash into the earth.

The asteroid which derived its name from fairy or goblin-like mythological creatures from Iberian, Latin American and Filipino folklore, is as large as an Olympic swimming pool and has an estimated diameter of 30 meters and an estimated mass of 40,000 metric tons.

Last month, reports were published on the presence of 1950 DA asteroid which measures one kilometer in diameter and is traveling at nine miles a second relative to Earth which can hit the planet at 38,000 miles per hour.

Although the likelihood of the rock hitting the Earth is relatively high, scientists are confident, however, that there are 35 generations more to go until its arrival and the disaster can be averted as well.