Killer Asteroid News & Updates 2016: NASA Builds Software To Monitor Killer Asteroids; Asteroid With Three-Billion-Nuclear-Bomb Capacity Found Heading Towards Earth

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has created a new software that will allow them to look into asteroids' activities closer and timelier. The software is called as Scout.

The software automatically calculates the distance of the asteroid from earth, as well as its impact towards Earth. According to Space Daily, the software can also calculate the path that the killer asteroids are taking in before its possible attack to Earth.

NASA wrote on their description about the software that ""Some near-Earth asteroids are potentially hazardous to Earth and their properties need to be better understood in order to inform impact mitigation strategies." The report specifically noted that some killer asteroids are too small that's why it needs a lot of observations to identify its orbital measurement.

NASA also uses a website created by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) which notes every unique space object and their notable activities. This way, the agency will know which way to look, especially when the object poses a big threat to Earth.

There are also websites which notes that there is a huge asteroid coming our way and it has an impact and capacity of a nuclear bomb three billion times. Metro UK notes that the killer asteroid was spotted by astronomer Zhao Haibin at a space observatory located in Nanjiing, China. However, the report also said that it has already passed through Earth at 18.8 lunar distance. The asteroid is named as 2009ES.

The killer asteroid was also detected by the software built by NASA. In a statement released by the agency a year ago, they said that there are "no large object [which] is likely to strike the Earth any time in the next several hundred years." NASA claims that the detected huge and killer asteroid will no longer harm the planet anytime soon.