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More 2020 Chaos: Asteroid Alert

Just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get any worse, we now find out that an asteroid might be on a collision course with Earth on election day. Last check on data reveals the object is the size of a refrigerator and is possibly headed our way at 225,000 mph.

Astrophysicist and celebrated author Neil deGrasse Tyson says the last time scientists obtained orbital data on the asteroid was two years ago, when it zoomed close enough to Earth, indicating that it possibly could buzzcut the planet on this approach. But not to worry, deGrasse Tyson says, “Based on that data there’s still some uncertainty now as it nears Earth two years later. And about one-half of one percent of that uncertainty includes hitting Earth.” He explains further on Fox News’ “Kennedy.”

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A Brief History Of Everything

Well-traveled astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson offers a concise and brief history of everything, including the rapid expansion of the universe following the big bang, in this edition of minutephysics. “We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it, we are born from it,” Tyson says. “One might even say we’ve been empowered by the universe to figure itself out, and we’ve only just begun.”

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