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Posted:
Aug 23, 2020
01:41 PM (IST)
Updated :
8 hours ago
In yet another 2020 surprise, NASA data has predicted that a small asteroid heading towards the Earth has a 0.41 per cent chance of hitting the planet one day before the US presidential election that is scheduled for November 3.
NASA scientists have predicted that the asteroid “2018VP1” with a diameter of 0.002 km (about 6.5 feet) will pass near Earth one day before the 2020 US election, reports the CNN.
But “based on 21 observations spanning 12.968 days,” the US space agency has determined the asteroid probably won’t have a deep impact.
Earlier, a car-sized asteroid flew past our home planet over the last weekend, in the closest flyby of such space rocks on record and scientists hardly had any information about it until it departed.
The asteroid passed 2,950 kilometres above the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday at 12.08 am EDT (9.38 pm India time), NASA said.
The vast majority of Near Earth Asteroids, or NEAs pass by safely at much greater distances—usually much farther away than the Moon.
The first image of this record-setting space rock, asteroid 2020 QG, was taken by a NASA-funded facility six hours after the closest point of approach as the asteroid was heading away from Earth.
The students are Kunal Deshmukh and Kritti Sharma—working on a research project to hunt for Near Earth Asteroids—who discovered the celestial object just hours later using data from the robotic Zwicky Transient Facility, (ZTF), California. — IANS
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