A mile-wide asteroid, "1998 OR-2" passed the Earth by *just* 3.9 million miles this past Wednesday. For reference, the moon is less than 240,000 miles away and the Sun is 93 million miles away. I suppose it's a blessing that even asteroids are practicing social distancing 😷 (video is not to scale) | Matt Leach - 21Alive Weather

79K views · 5.6K reactions | After nearly five years in space, NASA Solar System Exploration's #OSIRISREx mission is heading to Earth with a sample of rocks and dust from a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid! 朗 Check out how its mission #ToBennuAndBack exceeded all expectations: https://go.nasa.gov/33zjPoZ | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Facebook