Need to get your mind off pandemic-related issues?
How about an asteroid threat to the United States?
Media outlets are reporting today that NASA is saying there is a small risk — less than one percent — that an asteroid about 6.5 feet long could hit one of three places in the United States on Nov. 2, a day before the presidential election.
It probably wouldn’t have “a deep impact,” apparently — unless it lands on your house or, say, the White House, I’m thinking.
The news trended on my Twitter feed for a while today, then disappeared from it. I’m thinking most people are unconcerned. But the media hype may change that in the days and weeks to come. Brace yourselves for an onslaught of reports about asteroids — from what they are and where they may have originated to the risks they pose to satellites and Mother Earth and your house.
Oh, and let’s not forget those who will find a way to profit from it all. You know there will be T-shirts with cute asteroid pictures and expressions along with coffee cups, stuffed toys, etc. And there will be scammers sending text messages and emails promising some protection — for a price.
Step right up, folks. The asteroid circus has rolled into the global village.
— Jillian
Jillian Page 
6.5 feet will just be a bright streak high in the sky.
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*cough* Is it not amazing how a human tries to distinguish between an “asteroid” event,etc and Armaggeddon created by “humans”. tsk, tsk %@%;
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The object known as 2018VP1 is projected to come close to Earth on November 2, according to the Center for Near Earth Objects Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Their calculations today indicate that there is a 0.41% chance that it will hit the Earth. As usual as the object gets closer, so do their projections get more accurate.
2020 just keeps getting better every day.
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Ever the conspiracy theorist, I wonder about NASA’s release of this info. I mean, the chance of the asteroid hitting Earth is so slim, and it could always burn up in the atmosphere. But the news that it is out there could be a distraction from some of the real issues we are dealing with these days — not to mention the presidential election. I guess I’ll have to tune in to Coast to Coast AM for all the conspiracy theories in the next few months.
At the very least, it will provide some comic relief from the pandemic.
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