So much nonsense spread by the media... At least they named the asteroid: (52768) 1998 OR2 (has a Wikipedia article). A suddenly dangerous asteroid discovered back in 1998? Ah yes sure.
Wikipedia only lists year 2079 where it will pass at 4.6 Lunar distances. But also links to a NASA source, a table with many close approaches: https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=52768;cad=1#cad
2020-Apr-29 09:56 - predicted 0.042 AU (Astronomical Unit - basically solar distance from Earth)
Future encounters are gonna be much closer:
2079-Apr-16 14:38 00:02 - 0.009 AU to Moon and 2127-Apr-16 14:59 01:30 - 0.016 AU to Earth
So much nonsense spread by the media... At least they named the asteroid: (52768) 1998 OR2 (has a Wikipedia article). A suddenly dangerous asteroid discovered back in 1998? Ah yes sure.
Wikipedia only lists year 2079 where it will pass at 4.6 Lunar distances. But also links to a NASA source, a table with many close approaches: https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=52768;cad=1#cad
2020-Apr-29 09:56 - predicted 0.042 AU (Astronomical Unit - basically solar distance from Earth)
Future encounters are gonna be much closer:
2079-Apr-16 14:38 00:02 - 0.009 AU to Moon
and
2127-Apr-16 14:59 01:30 - 0.016 AU to Earth
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