MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Russian automated tool of monitoring hazardous situations in near-Earth space will be given a new name of “Milky Way,” the first deputy director of Russian space agency Roscosmos, Yury Urlichich, said on Tuesday.
According to one of the theories, a space object that hit the Earth billions of years ago led to the creation of the moon, while another space body that collided with our planet resulted in the extinction of dinosaurs.
NASA revealed this week that the likelihood of a gigantic asteroid 5 to 10 kilometres in diameter hitting the Earth is only 0.000001%.
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