NASA asteroid Warning: 460ft asteroid discovered last month flew past Earth today

This article talks about an asteroid that flew past Earth. In the article, it mentions how many objects fly close to Earth every day and how they could affect us if they hit Earth.

A video called “NASA release visualization of all known asteroids solar system” shows all the asteroids that have been in the solar system for the past several years. This video can help students visualize what they can’t see in space. This will be interesting for them to think about these things.

A misconception that could happen is students can think that an asteroid coming close to Earth is unusual and rare when really it happens every day. Only big ones get an article written about them. The video mentioned in the paragraph before will help solve this misconception.

A standard that aligns is MS-ESS1–3: analyze and interpret data to determine scale properties of objects in the solar system.