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Asteroid heading our way day before presidential election
NY Post ^ | 08/22/2020 | Isabel Vincent

Posted on 08/22/2020 11:39:35 AM PDT by DFG

This year could end with a bang.

Scientists recently spotted an asteroid on a direct collision course to Earth — projected to hit a day before the presidential elections in November.

The flying space object, known as 2018VP1, is expected on Nov. 2, according to the Center for Near Objects Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The asteroid is 6.5 feet in diameter, according to NASA data, and first identified at the Palomar Observatory in California two years ago.

The space agency says there could be three potential impacts “based on 21 observations spanning 12.968 days, with the chance of a direct impact less than 1%.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: DFG

Slow day when we are talkin about six foot meteors :-) not exactly Armageddon :-)

I can think of some people on the left I’d like it to fall on though


21 posted on 08/22/2020 12:01:57 PM PDT by dp0622 (I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE COVID GODFATHER I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!)
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To: datura

2 meters in diameter won’t get thru the atmosphere.


No need to share that small detail...

“Hey honey, world is going to end, it may be our last chance. We better make it count!!!”


22 posted on 08/22/2020 12:02:09 PM PDT by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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To: DFG





23 posted on 08/22/2020 12:03:20 PM PDT by foldspace (Hillary is still not a >convicted< criminal...)
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To: DFG

Oh, it’s just a distraction.


24 posted on 08/22/2020 12:05:42 PM PDT by Buttons12
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To: Seaplaner
Ideally, if it does impact the earth, it will fall where it does the least harm.

Hollywood, or Washington DC?

25 posted on 08/22/2020 12:07:03 PM PDT by Buttons12
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To: DFG

Zero is less than 1%


26 posted on 08/22/2020 12:09:33 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: DFG

2018VP1 is the scout, the swarm will follow, and then the main event ...


27 posted on 08/22/2020 12:13:16 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: nevergore
Cats and dogs living together mass hysteria.😁
28 posted on 08/22/2020 12:16:09 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf
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To: PIF

I knew this would happen when they started to campaign to let aliens vote.


29 posted on 08/22/2020 12:17:09 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: foldspace

I want to know more.


30 posted on 08/22/2020 12:21:54 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

I want a 2020 redo.


31 posted on 08/22/2020 12:23:22 PM PDT by LilFarmer
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To: DFG

depending on its composition, it may or may not hit the surface

personally, i’m actually a bit encouraged. if real, then they spotted an incoming meteor that’s only 6.5’ in diameter 3+ months before its projected impact


32 posted on 08/22/2020 12:27:23 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: DFG

Is this the first time they predicted we’d get hit?


33 posted on 08/22/2020 12:35:18 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: who knows what evil?

34 posted on 08/22/2020 12:48:47 PM PDT by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for)
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To: DFG

A one-in-240 chance of hitting the earth. Even if it does its so small at worst is will be a bolide (fireball) over the Pacific. No one may even see it, if it even hits. Estimated trajectory takes it over 400,000 km (240,000 miles) from earth, further than the moon.


35 posted on 08/22/2020 12:50:02 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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To: DFG

6 feet? I have televisions bigger than that. Send it.


36 posted on 08/22/2020 12:51:40 PM PDT by Viking2002 ("If a really stupid person becomes senile......how can you tell?" - George Carlin)
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To: DFG

The asteroid is called Trump and will send Democrats the way of the Dinosaur.


37 posted on 08/22/2020 12:59:52 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: DFG

I got this. I have an oversized catchers mitt. Just like a can of corn. .


38 posted on 08/22/2020 1:00:16 PM PDT by wgmalabama
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To: DFG

I got this. I have an oversized catchers mitt. Just like a can of corn. .


39 posted on 08/22/2020 1:00:18 PM PDT by wgmalabama
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To: DFG

There is a .000001% chance it will land on my house. We’re all good here.


40 posted on 08/22/2020 1:08:04 PM PDT by stevem
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