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A frightening video clip revealed the sheer size of some of the most iconic asteroids in our solar system, compiled by Spanish artist Alvaro Gracia Montoya.
The three-minute video compares the sizes of twenty space objects in New York City with 3D technology. Computer-generated rock models are lined up next to a city silhouette to give viewers an idea of its sheer size.
In addition to real rocks in the past and present, the group includes some objects from Hollywood films such as a Texas-sized asteroid from the 1998 science fiction film Armageddon.
Even one of the distinctive massive space stones has little chance of hitting Earth in the next 200 years.
Alvaro uploaded his wonderful creation to his YouTube channel on April 10th.
The video begins, Bnezik "Chelyabinsk", being the smallest in the displayed group, which exploded over the Russian city of its name in 2013 and is only 20 meters (65 feet) wide.
More than 1,600 people were injured in the shock wave caused by the explosion over the city of Chelyabinsk.
Hector, the largest asteroid shown in the video, can also be seen. It is 250 kilometers (155 miles) wide and shares its orbit around the sun.
Between these two extremes lies the first interstellar body to pass through the solar system. Scientists believe that the "Oumuamua," which is 400 meters wide, which passed near Earth in 2017, was a comet that was ejected in our direction from a distant star system.
The group also witnessed the asteroid "Benno" join the show. NASA says it is as long as ten Olympic swimming pools and has a one-in-2,700 chance of hitting Earth by the year 2200.
One of the highlights of the video is the asteroid "Tunguska", which has a diameter of 100 meters, which struck a remote region in Russia 100 years ago, and fortunately no one died because of it.
The 1908 explosion over Siberia, the Tunguska explosion, is known to be the largest explosion ever documented, equivalent to 185 Hiroshima bombs.
Source: The Sun
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