Helping-Spot

 NASA says bus-sized asteroid to zoom past the Earth’s surface today NASA has predicted that an all-new asteroid having a size of a bus is set to hurtle past the Earth today. The asteroid will zoom past the Earth’s surface from a distance of 22,000 km. According to the combination of mathematical and scientific estimation, the heavenly body will come in the closest proximity to the Earth’s geostationary satellites’ orbit at a distance of 36,000 km. Scientists believe that it will rush past our planet safely, without entering the atmosphere. The US-based space agency has named this new asteroid as ‘SW 2020’ which was discovered by the scientists on September 18 through NASA funded Catalina sky survey in Arizona. The CNEOS has claimed that it will be visible at around 7:12 AM ET (4:42 PM IST) from the south-eastern Pacific Ocean. It should also be taken into reference, that barely after ten days, a ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid named ‘QL 2020’ rushed past the Earth on 14th Septemb...