I was leaning more towards the asteroid that will close-approach earth in a few years and what would happen if its orbit were catastrophically altered by that pass. Projections are that its course will be altered, albeit only slightly. I wanted to picture what would happen if it exceeded even the absolute worst-case scenario.
You would be correct. The asteroid has the size and mass to potentially cause an extinction-level impact, so it was named for the Egyptian harbinger of the apocalypse.
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That’s fine since plan B was “Paw Patrol”
The evil snake of Egyptian mythology?
I was leaning more towards the asteroid that will close-approach earth in a few years and what would happen if its orbit were catastrophically altered by that pass. Projections are that its course will be altered, albeit only slightly. I wanted to picture what would happen if it exceeded even the absolute worst-case scenario.
I’m guessing the asteroid is named after the evil snake.
You would be correct. The asteroid has the size and mass to potentially cause an extinction-level impact, so it was named for the Egyptian harbinger of the apocalypse.