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Looks like the ‘election day asteroid’ didn’t hit us after all – AlKhaleej Today
Looks like the ‘election day asteroid’ didn’t hit us after all
Artists concept of a near-earth asteroid.NASA / JPL-CalTech
Oreo stowed it away Cookies in an asteroid-proof doomsday vault for nothing.
There was a lot of ado about the tiny asteroid 2018 VP1 and how his path would bring it very close to earth on November 2nd, the day before the contest US election. This timing earned him the nickname Election Day Asteroid, which is not exactly accurate.
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