NASA asteroid tracker: GIANT 1,100FT asteroid could strike Earth in October 2019

After that, NASA’s estimates show the asteroid threatens to hit Earth on October 2, 2024, October 3, 2025, and October 2, 2029.

Asteroid FT3 is an Apollo-type “Near-Earth Object” (NEO) on an orbital trajectory which cuts into Earth’s own orbit of the Sun.

The space rock was first observed by radars on March 20, 2007, and NASA’s threat estimates are based on 14 subsequent observations.

NASA explained: “In the unlikely case where a particular potential impact event persists until the orbit is relatively well constrained, the impact probability and associated risk will tend to increase as observations are added.

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