Another near-Earth asteroid won’t be this close again until 2090
Back in 1998 NASA found this near-earth object. This asteroid is about the size of a small town – one to three kilometers wide. “The newly discovered [asteroid 1998 OR2 is] large enough to cause global effects if one impacted Earth,” Scientists at Jet Propulsion Laboratories said in a statement in 1998. “[It is] classified as “potentially hazardous objects” because… Read more →