The asteroid, measuring about 131 feet (40 meters) in diameter, is the only celestial body in the European Space Agency's 'Risk List' catalogue said to have a chance of hitting our planet this year.
Russia's Roscosmos, NASA, the European Space Agency, and China's National Space Administration have all made plans to send manned missions to the Red Planet sometime in the next few decades. However, important details about such missions, including the radiation astronauts will face as they travel through the solar system, remain to be calculated.