NASA says it’s tracking a newly discovered asteroid that could potentially collide with Earth in 2046.
Workers on scaffolding repaint the NASA logo near the top of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, May 20, 2020.
, of colliding with the Earth that day. The space rock is about of 49.29 metres in diameter, or just over the size of two tennis courts, and orbits the sun about every 271 days., which measures the risk of impact. The scale ranges from zero to 10, with zero meaning no chance of hitting Earth and 10 meaning catastrophic collision is certain.
CNEOS says current calculations show the chance of the asteroid hitting the Earth is “extremely unlikely with no cause for public attention or public concern,” and further observation will very likely lead scientists to re-assign the impact probability to Level 0.
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