Asteroid Mishits Earth

Asteroid 2016 RB1 missed the Earth on Sept. 7.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) discovered the event only two days prior to the asteroid's descend. It dropped off 40,000 km

According to reports, even if it landed on Earth's surface, its approximate size is around 25 by 50 feet only which is smaller than the asteroid which is believed to have ended the lives of dinosaurs.

Further, the space rock passed out at the South Pole which makes possible destructions limited to scientific and research structures, cruise ships and penguins in the area.

The space agency claims that the identified asteroid is the closest that came to Earth for "at least the next half century. Astronomers discovered 2016 RB1 at the Mount Lemmon's north summit in in Tucson, Arizona from the survey of Catalina Sky, RT reported.

In 2013, a similar-sized space celestial body collided with Chelyabinsk surface in Russia leaving over 1,200 injured people.

Sources reveal that the space objects with similar size are hard to detect until they reach the atmosphere of the Earth.

2016 RB1 missing the Earth has a chance of coming back many years later. For instance, Asteroid Bennu will pass amidst the moon and Earth in 2135. The impact is believed to cause massive suffering and mortalities in the planet, The Daily Mail published.

Bennu crosses the orbit of the Earth once in six years. If gravity will change the asteroid's orbit, it might crash to the planet. NASA estimated that between 2175 and 2196, Bennu will cause disaster to the Earth comparable to explosion of 3 billion tonnes of detonators.

OSRIS-REx spacecraft is set to land on Bennu's surface in 2018. One year will be allotted in studying the surface of the asteroid including the presence of minerals and building blocks that may be necessary for living.