Asteroid Triggered Flood & Will Return
Earth is welcoming an extraterrestrial visitor on Wednesday April 19, 2017 — an asteroid that hasn't swung by in 400 years as big as the Rock of Gibraltar , asteroid 2014 JO25 is coming so close that its visit should be visible even to small telescopes. The upcoming flyby is the closest a large asteroid has come to Earth since Toutatis, (See picture below from NASA) a 3.5-mile-wide asteroid, passed within four lunar distances of Earth in September 2004. Another comparable flyby won't happen until 2027, when 1999 AN10, a half-mile-wide asteroid, is scheduled to whiz by Earth at a distance of a 236,000 miles. But NASA NASA picture of 2014 JO25 doesn’t tell you that there are smaller objects that could cause massive destruction they cannot detect. But no need to panic, NASA says. "Although there is absolutely no chance that this asteroid will collide with our planet, this will be a very close approach for an asteroid of this size," the space agency ...