When is National Near Miss Day?

NATIONAL NEAR MISS DAY IS NEAR MISS DAY, NEAR MISS DAY.

From a national perspective, many of us face a near miss here and there every day. a national view. On March 23rd, the entire Earth was struck by a near miss when a massive asteroid (4581 Asclepius) nearly struck us in 1989. We're reminded that the day the entire Earth was almost destroyed. The day 4581 Asclepius flew right on by, on National Near Miss Day.

A rocky asteroid the size of the earth on March 22-23, 1989, a mountain-sized asteroid came within 500,000 miles of colliding with the earth on March 22-23, 1989. "That was a close call on the cosmic scale of things," Dr. Henry Holt said. A collision with Asclepius is expected to produce electricity comparable to that of a 600 megaton atomic bomb explosion, according to geophysicists. A collision would have had catastrophic effects on our planet. The asteroid was discovered on March 31, 1989, nine days after the closest approach to Earth was nine days earlier.

There have been other near misses that have occurred on a regular basis.