"Should" is putting it a bit lightly. It has essentially zero chance of hitting us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(52768)_1998_OR2#2020_approach

What if it turns?

Then we have a much bigger problem than getting hit by an asteroid.

"That's no moon..."

Please stop spreading FUD. That's not even close to a close pass. From the linked article:

> At its closest approach, which will happen at about 5:56 a.m. EDT (0956 GMT), asteroid 1998 OR2 will be 3.9 million miles (6.3 million km) from Earth. That's more than 16 times the average distance between Earth and the moon.

At a space scale it's a close pass.

To be fair, various media outlets are also calling it a "close pass".

You're right, of course, that it's much larger than the distance from the Earth to the Moon, but that doesn't stop mainstream media from calling it a close pass.

A "close pass" here means "it may even be visible from Earth in a normal observatory sized telescope!"

Close pass isn't some FUD. It's a scientific definition. It's even defined in the article I linked.

You also have a few close ones coming up this weekend.

https://www.news18.com/news/tech/four-new-asteroids-are-appr...

I like https://twitter.com/lowflyingrocks which gets its data from https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/ the NASA JPL center for near Earth object studies. There aren't many that come closer than the moon...

Well that would likely eliminate SARS-CVD-2 so there'd be a silver lining...

Why, is this asteroid high in silver? Can we mine it? /s

Perhaps I should have written "silver plating"

I'm just not counting on should at this rate...

What if the asteroid strikes Yellowstone?

That can't happen twice.