A huge asteroid is set to safely pass earth earth on April 28, 2020 and though the asteroid will not hit the earth excitement is building among both professional and amateur astronomers to catch a glimpse of this asteroid.

According to experts, the asteroid is at least a mile wide (1.8 km) and maybe 2 1/2 times that big (4.1 km). The Virtual Telescope Project in Rome will host a free, online public viewing of the asteroid on April 28, 2020 but it is feared that the coronavirus outbreak in Italy and other parts of the world may cast a shadow on this plan.


Asteroid (52768) 1998 OR2 will pass at some 4 million miles (6 million km), or about 16 times the Earth-moon distance but it is still classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid.

Asteroid flyby: 4km space rock in deep space
Asteroid flyby: Asteroid OR2 in deep space


Wikipedia has listed 22 Potentially Hazardous Asteroids but none of them is known to be on a collision course with Earth. The orbit of asteroid (52768) 1998 OR2 is well known for at least the next 200 years and astronomers claim that the closest approach of this asteroid to Earth in this century and the next will happen in continue reading on https://www.alltrends.co/nasa-claims-4km-huge-asteroid-to-safely-cross-earth/