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2017 VL2: Another Asteroid No One Saw Coming, Discovered AFTER Narrowly Missing Earth

An asteroid the size of a whale narrowly missed Earth recently, and no one saw it until we would’ve been in its rear-view mirror. 2017 VL2 could have obliterated the Auckland CBD, but instead it whizzed by only 117,500km away – between here and the moon. It was travelling at 8.7km per second. According to Purdue University’s Impact Earth calculator, … Continue reading

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