On November 2, 2020 – exactly one day before the US presidential election – an asteroid will again come comparatively close to Earth. NASA tweeted this on Sunday. This fact is particularly worrying in the US media current For Headlines.
The chance that 2018VP1 will hit our earth is – by astronomical standards – relatively high. According to the NASA Asteroid Watch, it is 0.41 percent. And although the date may seem significant to some, there is no need to fear a doomsday scenario, because the asteroid is extremely small.
According to NASA, its diameter is estimated at 6.5 feet – that’s just under 2 meters. ESA spoke in an earlier tweet of a “tiny little dring” and estimated the size of the asteroid at 2.4 meters. There was also talk of a “relatively high” probability of hitting the earth.
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