3 'hidden' asteroids hurtling towards earth with 'blast' stronger than atom bomb

SCIENTISTS HAVE WARNED THREE HUGE ASTEROIDS CAPABLE OF WIPING OUT ENTIRE CITIES COULD BE HURTLING TOWARDS EARTH WITHIN WEEKS AND WE WOULDN'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT BECAUSE WE CAN'T SEE

THEM 21:48, 28 May 2025Updated 21:48, 28 May 2025 Three city-killing asteroids that could strike Earth without warning in weeks are currently hiding behind our nearest neighbouring planet,

boffins fear. The impact from any of the space rocks would make a crater over two miles wide and release over one million times more energy than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

But scientists from three countries all agree they are hard to spot because they're in sync with Venus's orbit and often hidden by the Sun's glare. And worse still, the

asteroids don't follow perfectly stable paths, meaning any kind of gravitational change could shift their course and pull them towards Earth. The three asteroids — known as 2020 SB,

524522, and 2020 CL1 — measure between 330 and 1,300 feet in diameter, making each one capable of leveling entire cities and setting off massive fires and tsunamis, a new study warns.

Article continues below The researchers noted the Rubin Observatory in Chile might be able to spot deadly asteroids approaching from our blind spot near Venus. Due to this interstellar

blindspot, it would have only two to four weeks to spot the deadly asteroids, leaving humans with little time if they were on a collision course, the Daily Mail reports. If one of these

asteroids were to hit a city, it would make a crater over two miles wide and release over one million times more energy than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945. The

international team, led by Valerio Carruba of São Paolo University, focused on asteroids that share Venus's orbit around the Sun, called Venus co-orbital asteroids. They wrote in their

report to the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics: "Twenty co-orbital asteroids of Venus are currently known. "Co-orbital status protects these asteroids from close approaches to

Venus, but it does not protect them from encountering Earth." The researchers used imitation space rocks to simulate a range of possible outcomes over 36,000 years. Article continues

below They found there is a sizable population of low-eccentricity asteroids — those previously thought to be harmless — that could be propelled toward Earth via gravitational shifts and

other factors. They added: “We believe that only a dedicated observational campaign from a space-based mission near Venus could potentially map and discover all the still ‘invisible’ PHA

(potentially hazardous asteroids) among Venus’ co-orbital asteroids." _FOR THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS AND STORIES FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE FROM THE DAILY STAR, SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER BY

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