Giant space rocks continue to threaten the planet as yet another large asteroid is headed towards the Earth this month. If an asteroid impact were to occur, it could be more powerful than a nuclear bomb.
2018 AH is the size of the Washington Monument, and its path will pass close by the Earth in December, according to NASA's asteroid tracker. If the asteroid were to slam into the planet, NASA says that it could cause devastation far greater than an atomic bomb. Luckily, the asteroid isn’t likely to hit the Earth when it passes, as its current path puts it passing by at roughly 4.5 million kilometers (around 2,796,170 miles). That’s over twelve times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
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