Asteroid four times the size of the Empire State Building barreling toward Earth on May 27 [Sorry. Not SMOD]

livescience.com ^ | Brandon Specktor p

[BenLurkin]

Fear not: the asteroid, named 7335 (1989 JA), will soundly miss our planet by about 2.5 million miles (4 million kilometers) — or nearly 10 times the average distance between Earth and the moon. Still, given the space rock's enormous size (1.1. miles, or 1.8 km, in diameter) and relatively close proximity to Earth, NASA has classified the asteroid as "potentially hazardous," meaning it could do enormous damage to our planet if its orbit ever changes and the rock impacts Earth.

This asteroid is one of more than 29,000 near-Earth objects (NEOs) that NASA tracks each year. NEOs refer to any astronomical object that passes within about 30 million miles (48 million km) of Earth's orbit, according to NASA. A majority of these objects are extremely small; 7335 (1989 JA) measures larger than about 99% of NEOs that NASA follows, the agency said.

7335 (1989 JA) also fits into a class of asteroid called the Apollo-class — which refers to asteroids that orbit the sun while periodically crossing Earth's orbit, Live Science previously reported. Astronomers know of about 15,000 such asteroids.

[Salman]

SMOD? Just another tease I’m afraid.

[plain talk]

A 1.8km asteroid - if it hit Earth - would cause local devastation and grief but would not be the "big one". Sort of like a Tunguska event. The Chicxulub crater was a mass extinction event and was about 10 km in size or so.

I don't scoff at these things and I am glad this one will miss us.

[Exit148]

Have you ever been to New Jersey?

[Recompennation]

DC

[dsrtsage]

“Have you ever been to New Jersey?”

I have

[Don W]

Less than 250,000 miles and then I’ll think about it, otherwise who cares?

[SunkenCiv]

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[roving]

The one to watch is Friday the 13th, 2029 Apophis

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Maybe it will hit Davos. No loss.

[JerseyDvl]

Bring it on ☄️...Now that’s the way to go out!!

[Democrat = party of treason]

Indeed, sounds like good news for a change...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Diameter of Carter”

Which Carter? Why are we interested in Carter’s diameter?

[Peter ODonnell]

Barrelling towards earth and missing earth by ten million miles sounds like an epic FAIL to me. Still, in a society in which you can lose an election by fifteen million votes and be sworn in president, I guess it is a direct hit, we’re all doomed and we’re all gonna die.

[Cronos]

I was amazed when I saw the scale diagrams below

[SERE_DOC]

how to be pre-judged

Tell people that one was born in California and raised in New Jersey.

I even hate myself for such a deleteriously mercurial lineage.

Oh the Hugh Manatee!

[ml/nj]

. Still, given the space rock's enormous size (1.1. miles, or 1.8 km, in diameter) and relatively close proximity to Earth, NASA has classified the asteroid as "potentially hazardous,"

About as "potentially hazardous" as global warming.

ML/NJ

[Exit148]

How about being born and living in Massachusetts- and marrying into NJ.?When my dear Mother realized where I was going to live, she cried but on her first visit here, i drove her around and she was astounded. Not AT ALL what she saw on the turnpike and all the gas tanks! Not many places where you can go from almost mountainous area and to the ocean in an hour. AND —- it is a peninsula!