WTF is that?! The space debris and asteroids hurtling towards Earth

In the next week, our planet will experience one near miss and one impact. What else is heading our way?

Every day, Earth is hit by something from space. It is a sobering thought that we live on the celestial equivalent of a dartboard, especially since we are taught that the dinosaurs were wiped out by the impact of a giant asteroid 65m years ago.

Astronomers at the European Space Agency's Near Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC), in Frascati, Italy, place objects that show even the slightest hint of striking our planet in the next century on a risk list, which currently contains 524 objects.