An Astroid Will Zoom Past Us The Day Before Election Day

[Towelney 1,458]

I’m not sure if this is the right place/tag to put this in, or if someone made a thread about this already, but i thought I’d share 

Amid a pandemic, civil unrest and a divisive US election season, we now have an asteroid zooming toward us.

On the day before the presidential vote, no less.

Yep. The celestial object known as 2018VP1 is projected to come close to Earth on November 2, according to the Center for Near Earth Objects Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It was first identified at Palomar Observatory in California in 2018.

"Asteroid 2018VP1 is very small, approximately 6.5 feet, and poses no threat to Earth. If it were to enter our planet's atmosphere, it would disintegrate due to its extremely small size," NASA said in a statement. "NASA has been directed by Congress to discover 90% of the near-Earth asteroids larger than 140 meters (459 feet) in size and reports on asteroids of any size."

The chance of it hitting us is just 0.41%, data show.

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[highlikegaga 9,117]

not hitting us? oh, really? i think i speak for the collective when i say - we're ready for it all to end at once. 

[Jose P 23,341]

This was already posted days ago, it’s a very small asteroid, and the chances of hitting are very very small.

[heygurlhi 3,200]

pls hit 

[Towelney 1,458]

Just now, Jose P said:

This was already posted days ago, it’s a very small asteroid, and the chances of hitting are very very small.

Sorry 

[heygurlhi 3,200]

me 

 

[heygurlhi 3,200]

in the head

[NFRatwell 23,290]

Just now, heygurlhi said:

in the head

Girl 3 whole posts to say barely a sentence seems like you already got hit it the head 

[heygurlhi 3,200]

1 minute ago, NFRockwell said:

Girl 3 whole posts to say barely a sentence seems like you already got hit it the head 

not hard enough

[Sister 9,907]

we now have a small chance of dying in collective before we get to vote lol