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Asteroid heading towards Earth on the day before the US Election

Steve Mills and Basil Zempilas

If 2020 wasn’t bad enough the world now faces the arrival of an asteroid on the day before the US Presidential vote, no less.

According to NASA the object known as 2018VP1 is projected to come close to Earth on November 2nd.

We spoke to Brad Tucker, Astrophysicist at ANU about the chances of the approximately 2 metre rock hitting Earth.

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Steve Mills and Basil Zempilas
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