NASA's prediction for eve of US Election has netizens cheering for asteroid 2018VP1

From COVID-19 pandemic to Black Lives Matter protests, just when United Stated was getting accustomed to new rmal and national interest h started shifting to upcoming US Presidential Elections, re seem to be yet ar ‘disappointing’ development.

What US citizens are sarcastically calling ‘2020 keeps getting better’ is NASA’s prediction about an asteroid zooming towards planet on vember 2, just one day before presidential vote of vember 3. 

Even though NASA h predicted celestial object 2018VP1 coming close to Earth years ago and has assured severe impact, netizens have caught up on it seven months into pandemic. asteroid is of diameter 0.0002km or around 6.5 feet and was first identified at Palomar Observatory in California in 2018. 

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Netizens to 'vote' for asteroid

NASA also said re are at least three potential impacts but has assured that it would t have a deep effect. However, internet users who have alrey once wanted to ‘Cancel 2020’ are w saying y will rar vote for asteroid than any or candidate standing in race for White House. As per NASA, probability of celestial object hitting planet remains at just 0.41 percent. 

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