Dubbed 2021 SG, an asteroid flew close to the planet on September 16, but because it came from the direction of the Sun, scientists didn’t see it coming and that is not funny.
The in-your-face event shocked the world and the scientists. The asteroid has a diameter of anywhere between 42-94 meters, with an average diameter of 68 meters, which is around the wingspan of a 747, the height of the Cinderella Castle in Disney World and around half the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza, and they all missed it!
They say most asteroids detected by agencies like NASA come at Earth from the “front,” but this one came from the back…so they missed it because they don’t have eyes in the back!
