Saturday morning at around 6AM (I presume EST), an asteroid large enough to cause a nuclear winter and mass extinction event, known to repeatedly and periodically cross the Earth’s orbit thus making it a significant threat will pass by us, only 3.6 million miles from the Earth.
Largest Planet-Killer Asteroid To Approach Earth This Month Arriving On Saturday
That's actually a relatively comfortable distance as the moon is just over 230,000 miles above our heads. If the asteroid was going to pass between us and the moon, then it might be time to seek the deepest hole and a lifetime supply of bourbon to herald in THE END. Besides, Prince is gone and we all survived 1999. I'm just not feeling the energy of celebrating like it's
2020.
Yes. Of course. Even if it were passing INSIDE the Moon's orbit, it is still infinitesimal compared to the volume of space between us and Luna. This asteroid could even hit our upper atmosphere at a grazing incidence and it would skip off and pass harmlessly back out into space. THE POINT BEING that as a NEO that repeatedly crosses our orbit, and the number of others like it, it is only a matter of time before one of these things or the many others as yet still undiscovered, DOES impact us.
I count 21 KNOWN mass extinction events of life in the history of the Earth, that we can find geological record of, since life arose. It'll be happening again.