Amid a pandemic , civil protests , and a divided election season in America , we now have an asteroid closing in on us, no less than the day before the US presidential vote.
Yes. The celestial object known as 2018VP1 is projected to approach Earth on November 2, according to the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Its diameter is 0.002 km, according to NASA data. It was first identified at the Palomar Observatory in California in 2018.
NASA indicates that there are three potential impacts, but based on “based on 21 observations spanning 12,968 days,” the agency has determined that the asteroid probably – phew! – will not have a profound impact, much less will bring an Armageddon.
As the data shows, the probability of it hitting us is only 0.41%.