According to Russia Today, the enormous asteroid, called the 2019 OU1, is 160 meters (524 feet) in diameter, equivalent to the Washington Monument, or 20 meters larger than Egypt’s most famous pyramid.

An asteroid, slightly larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza, is set to cross the Earth at a speed of 18 kilometers per second in August. According to Russia Today, the enormous asteroid, called the 2019 OU1, is 160 meters (524 feet) in diameter, equivalent to the Washington Monument, or 20 meters larger than Egypt’s most famous pyramid.

According to the NASA Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), the asteroid travels 40 million km above Venus, 40 times closer to Earth.

Social media has been flooded with reports of asteroid impact for the past few months. Although the Earth is fortunate enough to withstand all previous disasters, another estimate by a British scientist can cool your spine
According to Dr Ian McDonald, a top scientist at Cardiff University in Wales, the Doomsday Asteroid will ‘inevitably’ be hit by our planet one day or another. However, McDonald’s does not specify the exact date or time for the end of human civilization.

Speaking on the BBC’s Today program, scientists cite several events that have struck the planet in the past, and the possibility of similar catastrophic events in the near or distant future cannot be ruled out.

“As a geologist, we recognize these events in history and we try and think about what impact they will have on life at that time. We know these things will always happen. There are always rocks. The dramatic halo Valanu is that “McDonald said.