“Near Miss”: Asteroid To Make One Of ‘Closest Ever’ Approaches To Earth On Thursday

An asteroid about the size of a big truck will buzz the earth on Thursday – coming within 2,200 miles of the planet’s surface in one of the closest passes ever recorded, according to scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The asteroid, 2023 BU, will travel over the Pacific Ocean west of southern Chile this afternoon according to JPL’s Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer. “And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire