We are getting closer to doomsday
An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will whip past Earth on Friday morning, one of the closest such encounters ever recorded.
The space agency said on Wednesday that the newly discovered asteroid would make its closest approach on Friday at 11:27am AEDT, zooming past about 3,600 kilometres above the southern tip of South America.
That is 10 times closer than the bevy of communication satellites circling above the Earth.
This Asteroid was only discovered last Saturday 😱. What chance would we have if a large Asteroid was discovered next Saturday and it was on a collision course with Earth?
[image deleted]A NASA diagram shows the estimated trajectory of the Asteroid, in red, compared to the orbit of geosynchronous satellites, in green.
The space agency said on Wednesday that the newly discovered asteroid would make its closest approach on Friday at 11:27am AEDT, zooming past about 3,600 kilometres above the southern tip of South America.
That is 10 times closer than the bevy of communication satellites circling above the Earth.
This Asteroid was only discovered last Saturday 😱. What chance would we have if a large Asteroid was discovered next Saturday and it was on a collision course with Earth?
[image deleted]A NASA diagram shows the estimated trajectory of the Asteroid, in red, compared to the orbit of geosynchronous satellites, in green.
