Science
Asteroid On Track To Buzz Earth The Day Before The Presidential Election – HuffPost Australia
Call it an omen.
An asteroid hurtling close to Earth is on course to buzz the globe the day before the US presidential election.
According to calculations by NASA, the refrigerator-sized space boulder has only a minuscule chance (0.41%) of entering Earth’s atmosphere and is likely to make its flyby at a relatively comfortable but very close in space terms 260,000 miles, or slightly farther than the distance from the Earth to the moon.
“So if the world ends in 2020, it won’t be the fault of the universe,” astro…
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