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Asteroid dubbed 'God of Chaos' could hit Earth in 2068 and detonate chemical mayhem
asteroid could be on a collision course with Earth, a scientist has warned.The 1,115ft peanut-shaped space rock flew past our planet in the early hours of Saturday.It makes the round trip around the Sun every 324 days but has a wobbly orbit which could see it one day collide with Earth.The impact would be equivalent to 880 million tons of trinitrotoluene (TNT), an explosive material, exploding all at once.Dr Dave Tholen, 65, who helped discover the rock in 2004, said the earliest it could fly into our planet was 2068.He gave the chances as one in 380,000 but warned humanity needed to be ready to stop asteroid collisions, the Mail Online reports.The University of Hawaii astronomer said new observations have shown it is drifting from its