An asteroid that scientists say flew by Earth a few years ago is going to do another flyby in March, only it’ll be much, much closer. So close that scientists say it’ll be observable to asteroid search telescopes. To be clear, NASA isn’t predicting the apocalypse just yet—there’s no possibility of an Earth impact. The agency does say, however, that scientists aren’t really sure what trajectory the asteroid is going to take when it does make its flyby in March. That’s not distressing at all! Asteroid 2013 TX68 could fly past Earth as far out as 9 million miles, NASA said, or as close as 11,000 miles; the asteroid’s previous approach was about 1.3 million miles, so you can see how wildly its trajectory ...
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