The claims were based on data from NASA and the European Space Agency. They were compiled by Destiny, a science based YouTube channel that has over 195,000 subscribers.
An asteroid strike on Earth from a large rock could cause carnage.
In response authorities spend considerable resources tracking known asteroids and searching for new ones.
The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, which wiped out the dinosaurs, is believed by many scientists to have been caused by an asteroid impact.
As a result there are fears a new strike could prove equally devastating.
According to the Destiny Channel three huge asteroids, 101955 Bennu, 1979 XB and Apophis, are on a course that could see them crash into Earth.
They estimate there is a probability of up to 2.7 percent that Apophis will hit our planet on April 13 2029.
If this takes place the narrator said: “Computer simulations have been done showing that if it hits the earth Apophis could wipe out up to 10 million people in Columbia and Venezuela.
“A strike in the Pacific Ocean would wipe out every coastal city and town along the west coast of the United States.”
1979 XB will first pass close to Earth in 2024, but will continue to pose a threat till the middle of the century.
This rock is an estimated 3,000 feet in diameter and is estimated to be travelling at 43,495 miles per hour.
The final asteroid, 101955 Bennu, has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting Earth between 2175 and 2199.
NASA tracks major asteroids in the vicinity of Earth to check whether they are likely to collide and cause damage.
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However sometimes authorities are taken by surprise, particularly by smaller rocks.
NASA recently admitted it only identified an asteroid, 2019 MO, hours before it crashed into Earth.
The collision took place on June 29, with the asteroid burning up in the atmosphere above the Caribbean.
2019 MO was approximately 300,000 from Earth when it was identified by NASA.
This is further away from our planet than the Moon.
In a statement NASA claimed this was “roughly the equivalent of spotting something the size of a gnat from a distance of 310 miles”.
The asteroid was detected by the ATLAS survey telescope situated at the University of Hawaii.
In February 2013 as asteroid broke up over Chelyabinsk in Russia injuring 1,200 and damaging at least 7,000 buildings.
The asteroid in question was approximately the same size as a six-story building.
In July a 450-foot-wide asteroid came within 40,000 miles of Earth, the largest of its size in a century.
Kelly Fast, who runs the agency’s Near Earth Object Observation program, commented: “The whole point is to be able to find all of these asteroids and to catalog their orbits precisely and to calculate them into the future.
“So, you know if it is going to pass 19 lunar distances away like 2006 QQ23 or if it is going to pass closer — or if it is going to pose an impact threat.”
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