Asteroid 2018VP1 is approximately 6.5 feet in diameter and it is headed towards Earth. It is slated to be withing 300 miles of earth the day before the presidential election in November. NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory first identified the asteroid at Palomar Observatory in California in 2018. That explains the 2018 in the name. Perhaps VP stands for Vice President?
The asteroid poses no imminent threat to the earth. Should it enter the atmosphere it would burn up in the atmosphere. The chances of the asteroid actually striking the earth are just 0.41%. But hey this is 2020 them seem like pretty good odds. The orbital graph does not show it hitting the earth. This year’s flyby will be the asteroid’s first close approach to Earth since it was discovered.
Another asteroid will make a close approach on Election Day itself, November 3, 2020. That space rock, dubbed 2020 HF4, is somewhat larger at 26 to 60 feet (8 to 18 m) across, but will remain much, much farther away, about 16 times the distance of the moon. Far more dangerous is asteroid Trump whose orbit if far more unpredictable.
When Donald Trump was asked if he would call on his supporters to stay calm and desist from civil unrest in the immediate aftermath of next month’s election., Trump responded, “I’m urging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully, because that’s what has to happen. I’m urging them to do it.” Since that remake by the president was made, the FBI launched a series of arrests of militia members and others plotting to kidnap the Michigan governor, Gretchen Whitmer, and attack law enforcement.
Don’t let Donald Trump and his minions scare you away from the poles on election day. You will have already survived a near miss from a refrigerator sized piece of cosmic dust.
I liked your blog better before your woke political comments.
When I can sketch on location again, I’ll switch back to life as normal.