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? :-)

ASTEROID 2004 BL86 - A Potentially Hazardous Asteroid And Massive Zips Past Earth Today

On Monday January 26, 2015 a space rock a size of a mountain will zip past the Earth at 745,000 miles or 1.2 million kilometers which is about 3 lunar distance or distance between Earth and the moon. A giant asteroid which is about the size of a three football field which is about 1,800 feet or 550 meters wide named ASTEROID 2004 BL86 will have it's interplanetary journey particularly near the Earth-Moon system and describe to be an asteroid bigger than the world's most massive cruise ships in which if it were sitting on the Earth, it would be as tall as Toronto's CN Tower according to sources. But no worries as this huge asteroid categorize to be PHA or potentially hazardous asteroid or even Near Earth Asteroid will not fall on Earth otherwise the world as we know it will come to an end. Near Earth Asteroid 2004 BL86 is an eye-opening reminder of the potential risks of asteroid impacts and the importance of acquiring and tracking asteroid orbits because it is estimated that while 90 percent of the kilometer plus sized asteroids have been discovered, only 30% of the 140 meter-sized NEA's have been found with less than 1 percent of the 30-meter sized NEA's having been detected which means, your guess is good as mine.



The distance of Asteroid 2004 BL86 is in a safe distance though closer than any other asteroid this big will come until 2027, it's the year when we can expect a visit from another asteroid called 1999 AN 10. The huge asteroid will probably be easiest to find around 11 p.m. ET when it will be to the right of the planet Jupiter and between the constellations Leo and Gemini and it will look like a slow moving star or satellite according to Randy Attwood, executive director of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada plus NASA will also be watching the asteroid to capture images and data using its Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will also be following the close approach. So worry no more but relax and enjoy the night sky because this is something that doesn't happen every single day or maybe not:-)