A GIANT asteroid could be on course to hit Earth causing massive devastation, space boffins revealed today.That does it. I'm outta here.
An international team including NASA experts warned a 560m wide space rock has been discovered heading this way.
"Look out! It's a 560m wide space rock!"
If it did hit Earth it would blast a crater several miles wide and could devastate a city the size of London, wreaking death and destruction for hundreds of miles in every direction.
"Aaaiiieee! Death! Destruction!"
Anyone concerned by the warning has one thing to be thankful for — if it does hit it is most likely to happen in 2182.
Oh. Well. In that case we have time for dinner, don't we?
That gives scientists 172 years to work out how to deal with it.
... and we have time for a few drinks, too...
Hmmmmm...I smell an opportunity of a lifetime. Igor, where's that grant paperwork?
The asteroid was discovered in 1999 and is dubbed 1999 RQ36.
What? Nobody's done anything about it until now?... Ummm... What have they done now?
The scientists had labelled it a "potentially hazardous asteroid" of the Apollo group because its orbit brings it close to Earth.