NASA ASTEROID WARNING: ODDS OF SPACE ROCK '2019 DN' HITTING EARTH TODAY REVEALED

NASA has admitted the asteroid, dubbed 2019 DN, has been categorized as a Near Earth Object (NEO). The US space agency has used its high-tech asteroid-tracking surveillance satellites to calculate the space rock will make a near Earth-approach today, Friday, March 8. NASA is even able to pin-point the exact time of the asteroid’s closest approach with our planet – 4.19pm GMT (8.19am Pacific Time).

NASA confirmed asteroid 2019 DN – is an enormous 200m (700ft) in diameter.

Assuming the asteroid is mostly composed of iron, asteroid 2019 DN poses the potential explosive force of 36 times of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb should it slam into Earth.

However, it is extremely unlikely the asteroid will collide with Earth.

NASA has calculated the asteroid has a one in 30 million chance of smashing into Earth.

This equates into a 99.9999967 percent chance the space rock will miss our planet.

Asteroid 2019 DN: US space agency NASA have the space rock on their radar (Image: Getty)

Asteroid warning: India's lunar crater was the result of an asteroid strike (Image: Getty)

Asteroid 2019 DN will most likely be barreling through space more than 10 times farther away than the moon is from Earth.

In fact, 2019 DN will not even be the biggest asteroid on NASA’s radar this month.

Another space rock, 2019 CD5, measuring between 754ft (230m) across, will pass closer to Earth on March 20.

But, again, this is still not close enough to bet on it bring about an apocalyptic end of times for life on Earth.

These particular space rocks ranks as a level “zero” threat on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale.

Such odds mean the likelihood of a collision with Earth is virtually impossible.

Some may question why NASA describes these asteroids as near Earth objects, when the distances involved are so astronomical.

In simple terms, this is because space is infinitely huge, and so it is close in relative terms.

Our solar system’s asteroid belt includes some space rocks measuring more than 1 kilometer across.

NASA asteroid warning: It is believed the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid strike (Image: Getty)

NASA asteroid warning: asteroid struck over Chelyabinsk Oblast in Siberia in 2013 (Image: Getty)

NASA is aware of approximately 90 percent of asteroids, which would annihilate life Earth if they made impact with our planet.

The news of this today’s near-Earth approach comes as American science commentator Bill Nye revealed” we are potentially missing a hundred thousand killer asteroids.”

The American science commentator said on the AsapSCIENCE YouTube channel: “Searching for asteroids is like looking for a charcoal briquette in the dark; these things are hard to find.

“These asteroids are tiny compared to the vastness compared to the vastness of space.

“But infrared light and heat bounces off these asteroids.

“So surveying spacecraft are positioned with their backs to the Sun and look out from the orbit of Venus.”

The last known asteroid impact leveled vast swathes of the Siberian Tunguska forest in 1908.

A much smaller asteroid struck over Chelyabinsk Oblast in Russia in 2013, injuring 1,000 people with shattered glass caused by the asteroid exploding in the sky.