Big asteroid buzzes past Earth and will again in 19 years
* Breaking News !!!!!!!! * One of the most dangerous asteroids on record zipped close by Earth last month. It first made headlines when a reporter said that there's a chance it could hit our planet in l9 years. A collision this big is about the same as a couple thousand atomic bombs!! The space agency is 99.998% that when it circles back around the planet in 2032 it will simply fly past us again.
The likely hood of it striking Earth currently stands at 1:63,000. Those odds are decreasing fast as scientists find out more about the asteroid. The scientists named the asteroid TV135. TV135 was discovered on October 8 while NASA was closed during the government shutdown.This asteroid has been joining the ranks of the 10000 known near Earth objects that cause no harm.
Though it seems Earth is safer for now there is such a thing as a dooomsday asteroid. Scientists say it is likely that the impact of and astreoid over six miles wiped out dinosaurs on Earth 65 millions years ago. NASA says more will come but only every few million years.
My reaction to this article was that I was relieved the asteroid wasn't on a collision course with Earth. I also thought that it was good that the scientists found out more about the solar system around us.Overall I thought the article was interesting.
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