NASA Warns of Huge Asteroid Approaching Earth July 24th
376713 11: (FILE PHOTO) A view of the Earth appears over the Lunar horizon as the Apollo 11 Command Module comes into view of the Moon before Astronatus Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. leave in the Lunar Module, Eagle, to become the first men to walk on the Moon's surface. The 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon mission is celebrated July 20, 1999. (Photo by NASA/Newsmakers)
As 2020 continues its quest to win the “most bananas year ever” award, NASA has announced that a “potentially dangerous” asteroid is about to fly by the planet July 24th.
At over 556-feet long, the asteroid named “2020 ND” will be whizzing by the planet at nearly 30,000 miles per hour this Friday.
NASA says the asteroid’s distance to Earth, at 3 million miles away, makes it “potentially dangerous.” Don’t panic over the asteroid’s label, though, since this will be the sixth time it’s passed Earth.
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