A mile wide asteroid named 2006 VV2 will skim past Earth today. The asteroid was discovered in November by LINEAR, an automated telescope scouring the skies for potentially hazardous objects.
The asteroid will appear to move at twice the speed of Moon across the sky as it passes through the constellations of Great Bear and Leo.
According to the astronomers, the asteroid is too small to be visible by naked eye but can be seen through a normal telescope.
The asteroid is billed as a potentially dangerous object and will pass Earth from a distance of 2.1 million miles from us. The distance is eight times the distance between Earth and Moon but in cosmic terms it is a near miss.
If this asteroid were to hit Earth, then it would have blasted a crater the size of London and cause devastation for hundreds of miles around.
Such close encounters means that one day one asteroid will surely hit Earth, the point is that are we prepared to take the damage...!
Via: skymaina
