Asteroid on collision course with Earth - NASA reveals

An asteroid on a collision course with Earth is expected on November 2, one day before the US election, NASA data has revealed.

Dubbed 2018VP1 by NASA scientists, the asteroid is 2 metres in diameter and 16,000kg.

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It’s 2020 so an asteroid is headed toward Earth on the day before the election. NASA says the chance of it actually impacting Earth is 0.41%, so you can pretty much count on it. pic.twitter.com/7KkZOBrYd7

— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) August 22, 2020

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NASA says there could be three potential impacts "based on 21 observations spanning 12.968 days".

Fortunately, the asteroid has a 0.41 percent chance of hitting the planet, according to datafrom the Centre for Near-Earth Objects Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The asteroid was first spotted at Palomar Observatory in California in 2018.

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