As if 2020 weren’t overwhelming enough already. A locust plague in the Middle East and Africa and the COVID-19 and the world economy collapsing, now this. Multiple asteroids hurtling towards Earth, one of which may even collide with Earth’s atmosphere resulting in an atmospheric explosion.
An asteroid currently being tracked by NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CENOS), known as 2020 EF , will pass close enough to the planet to potentially ’cause an airburst’. However, the agency explains that we’re safe either way — the asteroid is too small to survive contact with Earth’s atmosphere.
OK, we dodged a bullet this time.
