Nasa has just increased the chances that an asteroid will hit Earth

Nasa now knows when the asteroid Bennu will make its close approach to Earth, as well as the day that it is most likely to strike the planet in a potentially highly dangerous impact.

However, if the asteroid is to collide with our watery world, it won’t be until 24 September 2182 according to Nasa’s latest projections – and they put the chance of it hitting anytime before 2300 at around one in 1,750.

And while asteroid Bennu is certainly large at 500-metres wide, it won’t be an extinction-causing event like we saw with the dinosaurs.