Let's see, we are in the middle of a pandemic, riots from coast to coast, killer hornets are now in the country, a tropical storm is due in Acadiana as early as Sunday and Saturday an asteroid larger than the Cajundome will fly by Earth...
Seventeen-thousand miles might not sound particularly close at first listen, but when it comes to a gigantic rock the size of half a football field, it's a bit scarier.
At 6:28 p.m ET today, an asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier will pass within 202,000 miles of Earth. That's closer than the roughly 240,000 miles between the Earth and the moon.