asteroid skimmed just a few hundred miles above the Pacific Ocean on Friday 13, but it wasn’t spotted until it had already missed us.The potential meteor, named 2020 VT4 by astronomers, is roughly the size of a double-decker bus.At that size it is unlikely to have reached the Earth’s surface even if it had been on a direct collision course – instead, it would almost certainly have burned p on entry onto the atmosphere – or even exploded like the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor that caused widespread property damage in a Russian city.It’s the second near-miss from an asteroid this year.
Back in August, asteroid 2020 QG passed within just 1,830 miles of Earth.Worryingly, NASA astronomers didn’t spot that one until after it had passed us by.
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