NEW YORK: Scientists from NASA were surprised as an asteroid that was supposed to pass by the Earth’s atmosphere hit the atmosphere over the Caribbean.

In a statement after the crash, NASA experts explained that they are not capable of tracking asteroids of such small sizes. While it might seem that the space rock was of colossal magnitude, when put in the perspective of space, it is just a speck on the horizon.

The asteroid, named 2019 MO, was first spotted when it was far away from our planet, and even beyond the orbit of the Moon. However, the fact that NASA was taken by surprise by the course of the asteroid is what is more worrying.

(Agencies)