asteroid

It's been a crazy year for sure and now an asteroid set to pass close to the earth the day before the U.S. election. However, it's nothing to be scared of.

As we barely manage to keep it together here on our pale, blue dot, the cosmic ballet continues above us and reminds us to seek a broader perspective.

After witnessing some of the damage that a dinner table-sized meteor did last week after crashing into central Russia, imagine the magnitude of destruction that would have occurred if that flaming rock was the length of 18 football fields. Now stop imagining, because scientists say it happened.

Seventeen-thousand miles might not sound particularly close at first listen, but when it comes to a gigantic rock the size of half a football field, it's a bit scarier.