. For reference, the International Space Station sits about 254 miles above the planet.
The size of asteroids like this one makes them hard to spot until they get close to Earth, but the majority pass by much farther away than the Moon,In fact, one dubbed 2020 QG passed the earth just 1,830 miles above the Indian Ocean last week — the closest such encounter on record — and NASA didn't even see it coming,"It's quite an accomplishment to find these tiny close-in asteroids in the first place, because they pass by so fast," said Paul Chodas, director of the Center...
"There's typically only a short window of a couple of days before or after close approach when this small of an asteroid is close enough to Earth to be bright enough but not so close that it moves too fast in the sky to be detected by a telescope," he said.Something is loading. Do you have a personal experience with the coronavirus you'd like to share? Or a tip on how your town or community is handling the pandemic? Please emailfrom Business Insider Intelligence on how COVID-19 is affecting industries.Something is loading.By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Business Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our
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ecclesias That’s so 2020
Starting to feel like there’s some alien race sling shotting huge rocks at us.. this is like the 4th or 5th “close to earth asteroid” I’ve read about this year alone
Clickbait
I would have mailed in my ballots by then. Unless Trump claims the ballot was eaten by an asteroid, I am not worried!
Why would you call this “truck sized”? It’s 6 1/2 feet long.
Because, why not?!
Voter suppression! Is the asteroid wearing a MAGA hat?
Terribly sensationalistic. Even in the very remote chance that this asteroid hits us directly, it’s only 6 feet wide and will burn up in the atmosphere.
“And as the asteroid crashed down, we thought, ‘well, isn’t this nice?’ And isn’t it ironic?”
Bring it!
Too small to destroy us..damn
People, please don’t fall for this bullshit clickbait:
This is bullshit clickbait:
“An asteroid the size of a truck”. That size it will disintegrate right before hitting earth 🤷🏻♂️. This is another scam to interfere the election, creating fear on voters so that somehow people think it’s better to vote early. Stupid ScamAsteroid
Meaningless tweet: 'is headed one day before', so it will emerge out of nowhere on that day? Or will it suddenly change course towards earth on that day? Perhaps you mean 'is likely to collide on that day'.
I might know who it is coming for and why. I had a prophetic dream about this.
Perhaps the fates will have the last word on this election afterall.
Has a .014% of hitting!
you all missed the one that hit on November 3rd. 2016
We’re not getting off that easy
Seriously..
It's 6 1/2 feet Just say no!
Well of course! 2020. All we need now are Aliens landing in NY. GEEZE!
It will burn up before it hits earth.
We will keep an eye out for a blood-red moon.
TRUMPiCANS 🇺🇸
Oh yea!
If it’ll missed, voters won’t.
Let it come!
Meteor got my vote.
In other words, we have nothing to worry about.
Scientists indicate that by calculating the speed of the asteroid and the spin of the earth it can be predicted with 100% accuracy that the asteroid will hit 75 miles off of the coast of Japan, awakening a currently dormant Godzilla.
It'll burn up on entry. I was going to suggest that you try to stick to what you know... business... but looks like you may know very little about that too.
Oh for fucks sake🤦♂️
Please land on Trump save everyone a lot of trouble please
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