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you wont see it unless it hits the atmosphere and then it will look like a bigger falling star
Since it's easier to karma doompost than rtfa, here's the salient point:  

The asteroid is relatively small: about 11.5 to 28 feet (3.5 to 8.5 meters) across, or roughly the size of a box truck. If it somehow reached Earth, it would turn into a fireball and largely disintegrate in the atmosphere, although some of the bigger pieces could fall as small meteorites. >

Can the small meteorites kill anyone, like my neighbor for example >

Asking for a friend? >

So, your neighbor? Or your friend’s nieghbor? >

avoids eye contact Friend's.... neighbor of course! >


The space rock, which is roughly the size of a delivery truck, is not expected to hit.

Though it will put a note in the record saying that it tried to hit, but no one was home. >

Hopefully, if everyone stays quiet and it doesn't catch us peeking out the blinds >

comet me bro >

Might want to lay off the aSteroids bro. >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 63%. (I'm a bot)


An asteroid which was discovered by a Crimean astronomer last week will zoom past Earth on Thursday night in one of the closest encounters ever recorded, NASA says.
2023 BU is expected to zoom over the southern tip of South America at 7:27 p.m. ET on Thursday at a height of only 3,600 kilometers, about 10 times closer than the communication satellites circling overhead. The asteroid is relatively small: about 11.5 to 28 feet across, or roughly the size of a box truck.
While the asteroid will miss Earth, its future trajectory is expected to be significantly altered by the planet's gravity.


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Thanks buddy >


2023 BU is expected to zoom over the southern tip of South America at 7:27 p.m. ET on Thursday at a height of only 3,600 kilometers (2,200 miles), about 10 times closer than the communication satellites circling overhead.

Will it just look like another satellite from the ground? Except faster?