Gadgetory

it feels like we're in the middle of an asteroid attack because for the fourth time this year a space rock is zipping right by earth and getting closer to us than the moon it's only the first week of February and we've dodged disaster four times life on Earth these days is stressful enough without worrying about space doom asteroid BS 32 pays earth to visit Thursday coming in at a distance of roughly a hundred and sixty one thousand kilometers or about a hundred thousand miles that's 60 percent closer than the moon or about 12 and a half earths away but the one before was even closer the distance of about five Earth's are all of these flybys coincidence or something more astronomers have looked to see if these clusters of smaller asteroids or fragments from something larger that had broken up but nope there's no correlation between the orbits it's just random but what if we're just noticing more of these rocks because the weather is different and it makes it easier to spot more of them and that doesn't seem to be the case either science tells us not to worry it's rare for one of these to make it to earth but considering the frequency maybe it wouldn't hurt to keep your eyes open I'm Bridget Carey and when you're not looking up keep up with the latest news at cnet.com