A refrigerator-sized asteroid will approach Earth on November 2, the day before the US presidential election. American astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson wrote about this on Instagram.
According to him, asteroid 2018VP1, a huge space rock, “rushes towards us at a speed of more than 25 thousand miles per hour.” The scientist suggested that a space body can touch the Earth, but will not cause harm. “So if the end of the world comes in 2020, it will not be the fault of the universe,” he summed up.
According to NASA, asteroid 2018VP1 will approach Earth at a minimum distance on November 2 at about 18:33 Moscow time. It will fly 384 thousand kilometers from the Earth. The chance that an asteroid will enter Earth's atmosphere is only one in 240, or 0.41 percent.
The asteroid was not identified as “potentially dangerous”, as computer simulations of its trajectory did not show the inevitability of a future collision with our planet. It was last seen on November 16, 2018.
