Comet size of Skyscraper misses Earth

  Dead Comet Narrowly Misses Earth on Halloween

A dead comet was just discovered earlier this month and is estimated to be about the size of a skyscraper. It shot past Earth on Halloween, at dangerously close proximity.  It is a dead comet, which indicates that it doesn’t have a tail. This comet is 2,000 ft in diameter, which is larger than the Empire State Building. Although it is smaller than the asteroid that causes the dinosaurs to go extinct, if it were to hit Earth, it would cause substantial damage to the lives and properties of those in the effected areas. “Fortunately, the comet will miss the Earth, but it still made an uncomfortably close approach of 302,885 miles. To put this in perspective, the average distance from the Earth to the moon is 238,900 miles.”