Is Asteroid 2018VP1 hitting Earth on November 2? Rumours explained

'Is Asteroid 2018VP1 hitting Earth on November 2?' has been a question asked by many people who were scared by multiple social media posts or or questionable sources with rumours that an asteroid is heed to Earth just one day before presidential election in America. However, rumours are actually based upon half-knowledge and do not resonate with truth in any form. year 2020 may have brought upon a number of tragedies and revelations but Earth getting hit by an asteroid is not going be one of those incidents. 

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Asteroid 2018VP1 hitting possibility

famously deemed 'dangerous' asteroid which has been termed as  2018VP1 is not actually a threat to Earth even if it somehow manages to break Earth's atmosphere without disintegrating. However, chance of asteroid hitting Earth has been deemed by NASA to have only a 0.41 per cent chance of firstly entering Earth's atmosphere and secondly due to its disintegration because of its smaller size. NASA asteroid watch's official Twitter account h shared details about it back in August writing - ''Asteroid 2018VP1 is very small, approx. 6.5 feet, and poses no threat to Earth. It currently has a 0.41% chance of entering our planet’s atmosphere, but if it did, it would disintegrate due to its extremely small size.''

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Furrmore, asteroid is very small in size. It is expected to be only 6.5 feet, which makes it smaller than what people expect it to be. re has been bigger space debris and larger satellites who have entered Earth's atmosphere and got disintegrated due to heat. It is easier to get scared of such matters as y have a certain sense of ambiguity surrounding m, but, official NASA personnel have gone on record multiple times to explain that asteroid will not be making its way to Earth and if it does, by some odds, n it won't cause much havoc eir. 

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Besides this, NASA has been overtly committed to tracking of asteroids in order to identify if y are a threat to planet. However, NASA has also gone on record stating that it is difficult to track asteroid as y move fast. Asteroids only leave a small window for NASA scientists to spot m. 

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