Asteroid 1998 OR2 | A Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 1998 OR2 To Pass By Earth 04/29/2020

After the US Navy declassified a UFO videos, it's now time for another astronomical show on a large scale as Asteroid 1998 OR2 which is a potentially hazardous asteroid the size of a mountain which is a mile-wide asteroid dubbed as 52768. But no worries, the space rock, known as 1998 OR2, is expected to make its closest approach at 10:56am, when it will be just 3.9 million miles away which is around 16 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon and although the asteroid is classified as a potentially hazardous object or PHO, scientists have said it will not put the planet at risk not in a way you could have imagined. Exciting as it may seem, it will pass by in what is considered a "close approach," and it won't get this close again until the year 2079. The asteroid will pass by no closer than 3.9 million miles, roughly 16 times the distance between the Earth and Moon system. Also, the asteroid was discovered by JPL's Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking program in July 1998. JPL officials called flybys of such large asteroids rare, occurring roughly every five years or so. The most recent one was in September 2017, when the 3-mile-wide asteroid Florence flew by at roughly 18 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon.

PHA are currently defined based on parameters that measure the asteroid's potential to make threatening close approaches to the Earth," NASA said. And so by definition, any asteroid that is larger than 500 feet across and is projected to come within 4.6 million miles of Earth is called a PHA. So be not afraid because Earth being struck by asteroid's possibility is at least 200 years away, according to JPL. But since the possibility does exist, scientists will take a close look at the asteroid as it passes, using telescopes and ground-based radar, "as observations such as these will enable an even better long-term assessment of the hazard presented by this asteroid. To ease the fears of people concerned about the Earth being struck by a large asteroid, JPL officials insisted it's "extremely unlikely" such an event will occur in the next century, since most such asteroids have already been "discovered, tracked and cataloged." So, do we need to be afraid? I guess not! instead we should be afraid of the pandemic we are facing now by staying at indoors just to be safe and just enjoy the UFO's and the Asteroid 1998 OR2 passing which is like wearing a face mask afraid of the dreaded virus too. :-) And Lastly, the UFO videos that appeared recently should remind us of the most important question, are we alone in the universe? :-)