Asteroid alert: NASA tracks a 'potentially hazardous' 1,800FT rock on Earth approach

[Judi Lynn]

AN ASTEROID dubbed “potentially hazardous” by space agency NASA will come incredibly close to Earth next week, NASA’s asteroid trackers have confirmed.

By SEBASTIAN KETTLEY
PUBLISHED: 22:37, Sat, Jan 4, 2020 | UPDATED: 22:54, Sat, Jan 4, 2020


The asteroid is estimated to measures more than 1,800ft (550m) across, making it taller than Sears Tower in Chicago. NASA predicts the space rock will swing by our planet just minutes before midnight on Friday, January 10.

When this happens, NASA said the rock will make a “close approach” to Earth.

Dubbed Asteroid 2019 UO, NASA’s trackers confirmed the rock’s trajectory in October 2019.

Since then, NASA has calculated the asteroid’s size, speed and orbit to determine whether it poses a threat to Earth.

Due to its impressive size and close brush with Earth, NASA’s astronomers dubbed 2019 UO a “potentially hazardous asteroid” or PHA.

More:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1224098/Asteroid-alert-NASA-track-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-Earth-approach-asteroid-news

[YOHABLO]

1. "swing by" WTF?

[Dream Girl]

2. You know, just to hang out and chill for a bit

Shoot the shit and such.

[nilram]

3. Chill out, sci-guys. It'll be 2.8 million miles away.

Find some other reason to drink heavily that night.

[Squidly]

5. Darn...

I was already planning not to go into work the next day!

[sheshe2]

4. Is NASA talking about Trump? nt

[lordsummerisle]

6. Your posts on asteroids are sensationalistic

asteroid alert as it approaches earth? What are we supposed to do, duck?!?

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Unfortunately, they're all reported that way ... headline is quoted from a British tabloid. nt

[LaurenOlimina]

8. Fund better research into defenses and observation.

[lordsummerisle]

9. Of course, in the long run n/t

[C_U_L8R]

10. Let's send Trump up to meet it with his Space Farce.

Maybe he can hitch a ride far away from here.

[AnnieBW]

11. Come on, Giant Meteor!

Destroy life on Earth, before Trump does!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. Meh. The odds of anything actually hitting us in the next 800 years or so

is effectively zero.

Check this out:

https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/

[Javaman]

13. ...