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Can 2020 get any crazier?
Coronavirus, hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, national protests, killer hornets and now an asteroid.
That’s right – an asteroid!
Right now NASA says it is monitoring an asteroid that will come very close to Earth the day before the US election on November 2.
The agency says the asteroid is named 2018VP1.”
It was first identified from Palomar Observatory in San Diego County in November 2018.
According to NASA’s data its diameter is about 6.5 feet.
But don’t worry.
NASA says the object will come close to our atmosphere but the probability of it impacting Earth is very small, at just 0.41%.
Whew!
Posted – 8.23.20