A new-found huge asteroid, nicknamed "The Beast," is expected zoom by Earth this weekend.
The asteroid 2014 HQ124, which is the size of a football stadium, poses no chance of hitting Earth in its flyby on Sunday (June 8), and will pass by at a range of three times the distance between the Earth-moon on Sunday (June 8). It was discovered on April 23 by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, a sky-mapping space telescope.
The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Images show surprise changes to the spacecraft as it interacted with the atmosphere.
will look for it on sunday
Goodbye Earth :( nice knowing you
Wow. They discovered an asteroid that has the potential to completely obliterate a few States only 6 weeks ago? What if it was heading our way? Is that even enough time to do anything?
What if it landed in the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean. Is that even enough time to evacuate a potential hundreds of millions of people?
this is crazy.. ive read stories like this one a few times in my life.. and im only 26
chances are eventually one of these asteroids will hit earth ..
what will we do then? i think we should start taking this more seriously ..
that was close enough
Dinosorearses all over again