Huge ‘Planet-Killer’ Astroid Headed Near Earth
A space team used a dark energy camera on a 4-meter telescope to observe three asteroids that were previously undetectable via telescope due to the glare and brightness of the sun. Two of those asteroids could pose a major threat to our planet. Scientists at the Earth & Planets Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science found two large near-Earth asteroids that are about 1 kilometer across. If one of them hits Earth, it would …