By Charlotte Edwards, The SunJanuary 30, 2022 9:17am  UpdatedNASA issues warning about asteroids heading for Earth undetectedVideo Player is loading.https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.496.0_en.html#goog_1615803938

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An asteroid isn’t expected to crash into Earth anytime soon but space agencies keep an eye out for themjust in case.

Depending on the size of the space rock, an asteroid impact could be an extinction level event and researchers have…