Ok, I’m sorry but there’s no way of sugarcoating this but a space rock the size of a Boeing-747 is heading our way.
The asteroid is officially called 2020 RK2.
NASA says the rocky object is likely to cross the Earth’s orbit but, here’s the good news, it will be about 3,830,238 kilometres from our planet. Exhale. The space research agency, therefore, says it’s unlikely to cause any damage. Ok, now you can totally relax.
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This is all supposed to happen tomorrow.
The asteroid is around 80 metres wide and travelling at 6.68 kilometres per second.
Unfortunately, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to see the asteroid from your backyard.
And another one!
An asteroid officially called 2020 SX3 is also heading towards earth.
The bad news is that this space rock is between 38 and 86 metres across, according to NASA - that’s about the size of three double-decker buses.
The good news is that it should swing past our home planet (Earth) with no chance of a direct hit.
It will be travelling at a mind-blowing 10.88 kilometers per second which is around 40,000 kilometres per hour.
NASA says although the asteroid will fly by at a distance of 1.7 million kilometres, it is close enough to be considered a near-Earth object (NEO).
“NEOs are comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits that allow them to enter the Earth’s neighbourhood.” NASA explains.
The asteroid will be closest to earth on October 8.