Oh my god there is another asteroid . Another one . Please wake me from this endless incubus .
Onceagainanasteroidisin the news for passing kind of cheeseparing to Earth . It has n’t collide with us . But we ’ve got good deal of alarming headlines doing the rounds , as always . Its size of it has been compared to everything from theEmpire State Buildingto , uh , the Queen .
When will this terminate ? Are we doomed to listen about asteroids flying near Earth until one finally avoid observation long enough to slam undetected into our planet , bring an end to this deplorable endless asteroid - ground existence where every mean solar day , every single day , there ’s news of yet another space John Rock sort of near us in space , and we ’re say it ’s the size of it of seven elephants stitched together or peradventure nine gondola and if it hit us we ’re all doomed to a fiery last in a berate inferno ? Yes , we are .
So anyway here is some selective information on the New Rock . It is called2017 VR12and it was first descry in November 2017 . It is estimate to be about 500 metre ( 1,640 feet ) across which is , yes , bigger than the Empire State Building ( 443 meters/1,454 feet ) and much , much expectant than the Queen ( 1.63 meters/5.3 feet ) .
It is anApollo - type asteroid , a class of 8,000 asteroids that cover our orbit on a regular basis , and it orbits the Sun every 585 days . It put across our satellite at a length of 1.44 million km ( 897,000 knot ) to begin with today and is now continuing its mirthful dance through the Solar System , but should be seeable in the Nox sky to commentator for most of the day .
2017 VR12 is classified as a Potentially wild Asteroid by NASA , although that ’s not too much to concern about . That includes any Rocks that exceed 500 metrical unit ( 140 meters ) in size of it and come closer than 7.5 million kilometre ( 4.6 million miles ) to Earth . Which is , like , quite a stack . Including our New Rock .
This is the nighest know notch of this asteroid until 2216 , when it will number a little bit nigher – but still not tightlipped enough to worry about . Everything is fine . I entail , there might be an asteroid with our name on iteventually . But for now , do n’t panic .
you’re able to panic , though , about this eternal asteroid - induced incubus we are stay put in . They will never stop . All of the asteroids . They are always coming , always flying past Earth . It is Armageddon but the asteroid never give up . They never surrender . All come the asteroids .
