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

[Robert59]

Well, 2020 keeps getting better all the time.
Amid a pandemic, civil unrest and a divisive US election season, we now have an asteroid zooming toward us.


https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/22/us/asteroid-earth-november-2020-scn-trnd/index.html

 

[deesierra]

Sounds about right for this year! But Armageddon is not imminent according to the article.

 

[Sunny]

Wait a minute, isn't this foreign interference with our election process? These extraterrestrials have no business getting involved. Let them mess around with their own elections. Sheesh!

 

[Don M.]

This asteroid is quite small....only about 6 ft. in diameter. Even if it were to approach Earth close enough to enter the atmosphere, it would probably be no more than a streak of light as it burned up.

 

[Judycat]

There is a .04% chance of impact. It is only 2 meters in diameter, so after coming through the atmosphere it will be pretty small when it finally does hit. Not an extinction event for the human race.

 

[Sunny]

Plus, the odds are that it would land in the ocean.

 

[911]

More fake news.

Asteroid

 

[Becky1951]

More fake news.

Asteroid

Not fake.

https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-the-real-truth-about-that-election-day-asteroid

 

[moviequeen1]

It certainly will be an interesting news event if it happens on Election Day

 

[win231]

I heard Asteroids are painful.

Oh, wait........wrong roid.

 

[Nathan]

Well, 2020 keeps getting better all the time.
Amid a pandemic, civil unrest and a divisive US election season, we now have an asteroid zooming toward us.


https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/22/us/asteroid-earth-november-2020-scn-trnd/index.html

Here is a 2020 calendar that I acquired somewhere...

 

[rgp]

It certainly will be an interesting news event if it happens on Election Day

Might just negate the purpose ? ...........

 

[fmdog44]

This is truely 2020

 

[Giantsfan1954]

I heard Asteroids are painful.

Oh, wait........wrong roid.

Good one!

 

[CarolfromTX]

It may not be fake news, but it is misleadingly alarmist. And par for the course lately.

 

[Myquest55]

I saw this sign: GIANT METEOR 2020
just end it already!!

 

[Becky1951]

It may not be fake news, but it is misleadingly alarmist. And par for the course lately.

How is it a misleading alarmist article? I read it as an interesting article about a tiny asteroid that will be near but not dangerous to us on the day before election day.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

Oh it's just going to whiz past us like all the (well most of) the others.

 

[Manatee]

Hillary ordered it.

 

[macgeek]

The world is ending in 12 years anyways I hear.

 

[Sunny]

Why would any self-respecting asteroid want to come here, anyway?

 

[Fyrefox]

And don't forget the Murder Hornets! I think we skipped the Murder Hornets...