Neil deGrasse Tyson says asteroid could hit day before election
In a reply to Tyson’s tweet, a user asked him: “Do we have a plan if a larger asteroid was on a path to strike Earth?” . “Actually, we do have plans, but none of them are funded.” Another user wrote, “Technically everything is the fault of the Universe, Neil.” NASA researchers cataloging “near-Earth objects” have discovered more than 19,000 of them since the agency began keeping the record in 1998. The approaching asteroid of which degrasse Tyson speaks was discovered in 2018. Another asteroid passed within 1,830 miles of Earth on Aug. 16 ...
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