Election Day Asteroid

[FmGrowit]

"The chance of it hitting us is just 0.41%, data show." I don't know about you, but if someone offered me a nearly 1/200 odds at winning a million dollars, I'd be all in.
The good news is the asteroid is only 6 1/2 feet long. The bad news is, you never want to get hit with a 6 1/2 foot long rock traveling at 20,000 mph.

Oh, great: NASA says an asteroid is headed our way right before Election Day | CNN

Well, 2020 just keeps getting better all the time.

www.cnn.com

 

[skychaser]

Giant Asteroid 2020 ! Vote early! Vote often!

There was one about this size that passed within 150 miles a couple weeks ago. That's about half way between Earth and the ISS and most satellites. It came from out of the direction of the sun and no one saw it coming until it zoomed past. Ones this small would never make it through the atmosphere but would make quite a light show coming in.

Near Earth Asteroids

Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet, although astronomers are finding new ones all the time.

On August 24, 2020 there were 2037 potentially hazardous asteroids.​

Recent & Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters:

Asteroid	Date(UT)​	Miss Distance​	Velocity (km/s)​	Diameter (m)​
2020 PS	2020-Aug-19​	6.3 LD​	8.8​	45​
2020 QW3	2020-Aug-20​	8.2 LD​	18​	30​
2020 QO1	2020-Aug-20​	3.7 LD​	26.5​	13​
2020 PY2	2020-Aug-20​	0.9 LD​	16.8​	16​
2020 QY2	2020-Aug-20​	0.2 LD​	18.9​	2​
2020 PQ2	2020-Aug-21​	4.6 LD​	19.7​	50​
2020 QN4	2020-Aug-21​	0.7 LD​	7.7​	7​
2020 QP	2020-Aug-21​	16.1 LD​	24.7​	56​
2020 QQ4	2020-Aug-22​	0.8 LD​	7.6​	6​
2020 QF	2020-Aug-23​	9 LD​	6.9​	13​
2020 QT4	2020-Aug-23​	5.4 LD​	8.3​	31​
2020 FA1	2020-Aug-23​	18.4 LD​	1.9​	20​
2020 QD1	2020-Aug-23​	10.1 LD​	13.5​	16​
2020 PP3	2020-Aug-24​	16.2 LD​	9.5​	36​
2020 PJ6	2020-Aug-24​	13.9 LD​	3.3​	27​
2020 QE2	2020-Aug-25​	20 LD​	12.6​	35​
2020 QP1	2020-Aug-25​	19.6 LD​	8.7​	20​
2016 AH164	2020-Aug-26​	15.7 LD​	5.6​	4​
2020 PF3	2020-Aug-26​	6.4 LD​	9.6​	26​
2020 QQ2	2020-Aug-27​	8.6 LD​	6.2​	16​
2011 ES4	2020-Sep-01​	0.3 LD​	8.2​	30​
2020 PG6	2020-Sep-02​	5.9 LD​	6.6​	14​
465824	2020-Sep-06​	19.4 LD​	14​	162​
2020 PT4	2020-Sep-08​	4.9 LD​	12.6​	39​
2012 RM15	2020-Sep-12​	14.9 LD​	9.8​	45​
2017 US	2020-Sep-13​	17.3 LD​	5.9​	21​
2020 QL2	2020-Sep-14​	17.9 LD​	10.6​	72​
2014 QJ33	2020-Sep-18​	11.5 LD​	8.3​	65​
2017 SL16	2020-Sep-20​	8.9 LD​	6.4​	25​
2001 GP2	2020-Oct-01​	6.1 LD​	2.2​	15​
2010 UC	2020-Oct-04​	14.6 LD​	3.2​	12​
2019 SB6	2020-Oct-07​	11.9 LD​	7.6​	16​
2018 GD2	2020-Oct-13​	16.4 LD​	6.7​	5​
2017 UH5	2020-Oct-20​	8.9 LD​	5.9​	18​
2018 VG	2020-Oct-21​	15.1 LD​	6.7​	12​

Notes: LD means "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude of the asteroid on the date of closest approach.​

 

[plantdude]

Ahh crap. We are all going to die... again.

It must be 2020. I've written the same statement on two different threads in one day