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Judgment Day: Four asteroids to fly past Earth on Yom Kippur - NASA - The Jerusalem Post

Judgment Day: Four asteroids to fly past Earth on Yom Kippur - NASA - The Jerusalem Post

Oct 03, 2022 1 min, 11 secs

Yom Kippur, the Jewish judgement day and Day of Atonement is about to arrive, and four asteroids are coming along with it, according to NASA's asteroid tracker. .

Two of the asteroids are set to pass the Earth on Tuesday, October 4, which is Erev Yom Kippur.

The four asteroids that are set to pass the Earth around Yom Kippur have been designated 2022 SM21, 2022 SO11, 2018 VG and 2022 SJ28, according to the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

The first one coming, asteroid 2022 SM21, is estimated to be anywhere between 9 and 20 meters in width. .

However, while asteroid 2022 SM21 may not measure up to the other three Yom Kippur asteroids in terms of size, it leaves all of them in its figurative cosmic dust in terms of speed. .

These two asteroids are both set to pass the Earth on the day that Yom Kippur starts - October 4.

The last asteroid coming on Yom Kippur, asteroid 2022 SJ28, is the largest of the group, ranging somewhere between 14 meters and 32 meters wide – although that is still on the smaller side.

The asteroid that comes the closest around Yom Kippur is asteroid 2022 SO11.

This means that, in theory, asteroid 2022 SM21 will actually fly closer to Earth than the James Webb Space Telescope.

An asteroid over a kilometer in width – like asteroid 138971 (2001 CB21), which passed the Earth in early March 2022 – could trigger a worldwide cataclysm.

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