Popular scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson says a small asteroid could collide with the Earth one day before election day in November. It is too small to bring any danger with its impact.
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&#8220;Asteroid 2018VP1, a refrigerator-sized space-rock, is hurtling towards us at more than 25,000 mi/hr. It may buzz-cut Earth on Nov. 2, the day before the Presidential Election,&#8221; Tyson warned on Instagram, Saturday. &#8220;But it’s not big enough to cause harm. So if the World ends in 2020, it won’t be the fault of the Universe.&#8221;
NASA has already identified the asteroid and says it has less than a one-percent chance to crack the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. &#8220;Asteroid 2018VP1 is very small, approx. 6.5 feet, and poses no threat to Earth! It currently has a 0.41% chance of entering our planet’s atmosphere, but if it did, it would disintegrate due to its extremely small size,&#8221; the organization said.
Regardless of whether the asteroid breaks the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, Americans will still be able to safely vote the following day.
Tyson is hosting a new show on Fox titled Cosmos: Possible Worlds. The show is a follow-up to the 2014 television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which Tyson also hosted. The show premiered on March 9, 2020.
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