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Next month the Earth is set to cross paths with a rather large visitor, measuring between 1.77 and 4.02 km’s wide and moving at 16,835 km per hour. Luckily, it seems it’s set not to hit earth, but will be making a fly by on April 29th, within 6276447 kms of us to be exact.
#FYI Scientists in the US have predicted that an asteroid is making its way to earth on 29 April 2020.
The object, called 52768 (1998 OR2), is 1 to 2.5 miles wide and will pass within 3,908,791 miles, moving at 19,461 miles per hour. pic.twitter.com/T2vtY3ooWT
— 🇿🇦Mpho Maá¹±hoho (@MaxMpho) March 4, 2020
New "Potentially Dangerous" #Asteroid 52768 (1998 OR2) To Cross Earth's Orbithttps://t.co/Ep7SXbETT2 pic.twitter.com/58KYNlIDm8
— Giavedoni Eric (@GiavedoniEric) March 4, 2020
The asteroid, codenamed ‘OR2’, is the biggest asteroid to pass by our little planet over the next two months, and the consequences could be very bad on a global scale if it’s trajectory shifts even a little.
OR2 was first discovered in 1998. When discovered NASA wrote that OR2 and another asteroid “show no signs of coming dangerously close to Earth within at least the next several decades”. Lets hope they’re right…
