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IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD!

Life to be ‘wiped out’ by COCK-SHAPED asteroid

- By SIMON DEAN simon@ sundayspor­t. co. uk

HUMAN civilisati­on is on the brink of being wiped out – by a massive asteroid shaped like an immense COCK ‘ N’ BALLS! A phallic space rock larger than the Empire State Building is on collision course with the Earth, NASA warned last week. When the asteroid hits – with the power of more than ONE BILLION Hiroshima bombs – it will instantly vapourise an area the size of Peru. It will also throw up enough debris to cover the entire planet to the thickness of a 1987 Inner London telephone directory – smothering crops and insect life.

Disaster

The dust will also block out the sun for more than 200 YEARS, leading to a new Ice Age and the sea freezing as far south as the Canary Islands.

The rock – 2015 BN509 – came close to Earth earlier this month when it flew past at 44,000mph.

Nasa has labelled the asteroid, which about 660ft wide by 1,310ft long, as ‘ potentiall­y hazardous’.

The asteroid was caught flying close range by a radio telescope called the Arecibo Observator­y.

Dr Edgard Rivera- Valentín, a scientist at the observator­y in Puerto Rico, said: “The shape comes from the fact that it is a contact binary where two parts could not successful­ly orbit each other and fell back together.”

The boffin added that early internatio­nal cooperatio­n could save the world from disaster.

He explained: “An asteroid impact, unlike other natural catastroph­es, can actually be avoided.

“The data from Arecibo can be used by Nasa to inform a planetary defence mission.”

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