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Please stop spreading FUD. That's not even close to a close pass. From the linked article: > At its closest approach, which will happen at about 5:56 a.m. EDT
by Dunedan 7y ago
Please stop spreading FUD. That's not even close to a close pass. From the linked article:
> At its closest approach, which will happen at about 5:56 a.m. EDT (0956 GMT), asteroid 1998 OR2 will be 3.9 million miles (6.3 million km) from Earth. That's more than 16 times the average distance between Earth and the moon.
- magduf 7y agoTo be fair, various media outlets are also calling it a "close pass". You're right, of course, that it's much larger than the distance from the Earth to the Moon, but that doesn't stop mainstream media from calling it a close pass.
- dmitripopov 7y agoAt a space scale it's a close pass.
- marcosdumay 7y agoA "close pass" here means "it may even be visible from Earth in a normal observatory sized telescope!"
- dumbfoundded 7y agoClose pass isn't some FUD. It's a scientific definition. It's even defined in the article I linked.