A ‘three-headed asteroid’ has been discovered – and we’d be ‘toast if it hit us’

Not something you want hurtling towards us, that’s for sure (Picture: Getty/Metro

The Cerberus of the asteroid world has been discovered – and let’s hope it won’t crash into Earth anytime soon.

A lone stargazer discovered 44 Nysa from his flat in 1857, seeing just a pinprick of light in the sky between Mars and Jupiter.

But a joint effort by scientists in Arizona and Chile has discovered that Nysa isn’t your average rock – it has not one, not two, but three heads.

The 47-mile-wide space rock marks the first time a three-lobed asteroid has be...