Neil DeGrass Tyson says asteroids could hit before the election


Fridge-sized space-rock leads us, he tweeted, it will ‘roar the earth on November 2nd.’

Renowned astrophysicist Neil DeGrass Tyson Posted a picture of a planet approaching Earth that could strike the planet before the Nov. 3 election.

“Asteroid 2018 VP1, a refrigerator-sized space-rock, hurts us at speeds in excess of 40,000 km per hour,” he wrote in a tweet on Saturday. “He can conceive on Earth on November 2, the day before the presidential election.”

He noted that asteroids are not large enough to cause damage. So if the world ends in 2020, it will not be the fault of the universe. ”

Despite the warning, NASA has Previously Confirmed that asteroids have a 1% probability of actually hitting Earth.

In this February photo, Neil Degrass Tyson is speaking on stage at the National Geographic's Los Angeles premiere of
In this February photo, Neil Digras Tyson is speaking on stage at the Los Angeles premiere of National Geographic’s “Cosmos: Possible Worlds” at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Westwood, California. (Photo by Getty Images for the same Scarnish / National Geographic)

In response to Tyson’s tweet, a user asked him: “What do we plan to do if a large asteroid is about to strike Earth?”

“No,” he said Replied. “Indeed, we have plans, but none of them are funded.”

Another user wrote, “Technically everything is the fault of the universe, Neil.”

Whom he Replied, “… not the results of the presidential election.”

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Since the agency began keeping records in 1998, NASA researchers have listed “objects close to Earth.”

The nearest asteroid that Tyson says degrades was found in 2018.

On August 16 this year, another planet passed 1,830 miles from Earth. It was not the closest known, affected planet, according to NASA officials.

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Even asteroids will not pose any risk to people on Earth due to its size. However, it worries astronomers because it cannot be detected until it passes through the planet.

“The asteroid was detected by the direction of the sun and came out of the cated,” he said. Paul Chodas, Said NASA’s director of center-near-earth ject project studies Business interior. “We haven’t seen him come.”

Although there is virtually no threat to the nearby asteroid planet, the warning has hit many on social media. Ironically Global epidemics and other disasters have been witnessed throughout the year.

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