NASA Tracking ‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid

 Headlines like these seem to be appearing in the MSM on a fairly regular basis.  After watching Hollywood movies about asteroids slamming into earth, the question that comes to mind is, “would the governments of the world actually tell us if there was a cataclysmic asteroid due to slam into earth?”  Imagine the panic if NASA one day announced that a 2 mile wide “planet killer” was going to hit us in 2 months.  Imagine the instantaneous shut down of all grocery stores and basically every business on earth as people tried to get to the place on earth they thought they could survive.

Let’s remember that Revelation 8:8 tells us that a huge rock that looked like a fiery mountain, goes crashing into the sea killing and destroying much during the Tribulation.  Headlines like these serve as a foreshadowing of this event.  

8The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, 9a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

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Two enormous "potentially hazardous asteroids" are due to soar through Earth's neighborhood later this week.

Both are classed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Center for Near-Earth Studies (CNEOS) as near-Earth objects (NEOs) and as potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs).

NEOs are defined as any object that comes within approximately 120 million miles of the sun, or 30 million miles of Earth, while a PHA is classed as an object measuring at least 460 feet in diameter that approaches within about 4.6 million miles from the sun.

The asteroids, named 447755 (2007 JX2) and (2020 XR), are each estimated at being around the size of the Empire State Building.

The asteroids are due to soar near our planet on December 3 and 4 respectively, with 447755 (2007 JX2) passing at a distance of 3,440,000 miles, and (2020 XR) passing at 1,370,000 miles.

For perspective purposes, the moon orbits our planet at a distance of 238,900 miles, while our closest planet companion, Venus, is about 24 million miles away at its closest point.

"A potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is one that has an orbit intersecting the Earth's orbit around the Sun by less than 0.05 astronomical units (1 AU is the distance to the Sun), that's just over 4.5 million miles," Martin Barstow, a professor of astrophysics and space science at the University of Leicester in the U.K.

https://www.newsweek.com/two-asteroids-empire-state-building-size-nasa-tracking-space-1994248