Oh, great: NASA says an asteroid is headed our way right before Election Day – CNN

Yep. The celestial object identified as 2018VP1 is projected to approach terminate to Earth on November 2, in accordance to the Center for Strategy Earth Objects Reviews at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Its diameter is 0.002 km, or about 6.5 feet, in accordance to NASA’s knowledge. It became as soon as first identified at Palomar Observatory in California in 2018.

NASA says there are three doable impacts, but “essentially essentially based on 21 observations spanning 12.968 days,” the company has certain the asteroid doubtlessly — phew! — will no longer gain a deep impact, let on my own lift Armageddon.

The possibility of it hitting us is upright 0.41%, knowledge trace.

CNN has reached out NASA for any additional or updated knowledge but has no longer heard relieve.