New asteroid predicted to pass close to Earth
An asteroid found in 2018 will fly quite close to Earth on Nov. two in accordance with The Center for Near Earth Objects Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Astronomers spotted the thing out of Palomar Observatory in San Diego County at 2018 followed by a 13 day monitoring arc and has not yet been detected since.
Asteroid 2018VP1 is currently projected to come near Earth sometime throughout the day prior to the 2020 presidential election on Nov. 3, in accordance with NASA.
The asteroid will likely arrive as near between 4,700 miles and 260,000 miles of Earth, according to Forbes.
The good news is that there is only a 1 in 240 (0.41percent ) chance of the asteroid entering earth's air and because the asteroid is only approximately 7 feet in diameter, even if it will manage to enter the planet's atmosphere, it would seem as a very bright meteor and divide into tiny pieces.
The logarithmic scale used by astronomers to speed the possible hazard of impact of an asteroid speeds 2018VP1 a -3.57
Actual scale worth less than -2 reflect events for which there are no likely impacts, while Palermo Scale values between -2 and 0 indicate situations which merit careful monitoring.
NASA's JPL - Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale
For the past 290 million decades, large asteroids have been crashing into Earth more than twice as frequently as they did in the previous 700 million years, according to some 2019 research in the journal Science.
Asteroids still just hit Earth on average each million or few million years, in spite of the higher crash rate. NASA's record of potential big space rock crashes reveals no impending major dangers.
The largest known risk is a 4,200-foot wide asteroid using a 99.988% likelihood that it is going to miss Earth when it stinks very close within 861 years.
An asteroid found in 2018 will fly quite close to Earth on Nov. two in accordance with The Center for Near Earth Objects Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Astronomers spotted the thing out of Palomar Observatory in San Diego County at 2018 followed by a 13 day monitoring arc and has not yet been detected since.
Asteroid 2018VP1 is currently projected to come near Earth sometime throughout the day prior to the 2020 presidential election on Nov. 3, in accordance with NASA.
The asteroid will likely arrive as near between 4,700 miles and 260,000 miles of Earth, according to Forbes.
The good news is that there is only a 1 in 240 (0.41percent ) chance of the asteroid entering earth's air and because the asteroid is only approximately 7 feet in diameter, even if it will manage to enter the planet's atmosphere, it would seem as a very bright meteor and divide into tiny pieces.
The logarithmic scale used by astronomers to speed the possible hazard of impact of an asteroid speeds 2018VP1 a -3.57
Actual scale worth less than -2 reflect events for which there are no likely impacts, while Palermo Scale values between -2 and 0 indicate situations which merit careful monitoring.
NASA's JPL - Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale
For the past 290 million decades, large asteroids have been crashing into Earth more than twice as frequently as they did in the previous 700 million years, according to some 2019 research in the journal Science.
Asteroids still just hit Earth on average each million or few million years, in spite of the higher crash rate. NASA's record of potential big space rock crashes reveals no impending major dangers.
The largest known risk is a 4,200-foot wide asteroid using a 99.988% likelihood that it is going to miss Earth when it stinks very close within 861 years.