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2 hours agoHuge asteroid with potential to obliterate CITY will just miss Earth
Asteroid 2026 JH2 will pass extremely close to Earth next week, with no impact expected for at least 100 years.
Musk said that 3I/Atlas could "kill most of human life" and the interstellar object has baffled top Astrophysicists over the past months. Physicist Dr Avi Loeb has said that 3I/Atlas could be an "alien mothership" UFO boffins believe the interstellar object could be trying to make contact with Earth. Musk told the Joe Rogan Experience podcast that the object "could be alien, I don't know," however it is an unusual comet.
The Taurid meteor shower blooms when Earth flies through debris left behind by Comet 2P/Encke. Encke has among the shortest orbital periods of all comets identified by scientists to date, completing one loop around the sun every 3.3 years. As the object zips around the warmest part of that loop near the sun, its ice turns to gas, which causes the comet to shed dust and other material.