The Nationwide Aeronautics and Area Administration (NASA) is monitoring an enormous asteroid that’s anticipated to come back near Earth on Tuesday night time.
The rocky object, which has been named 2024 ON, has a diameter of 950 ft, in line with NASA’s Asteroid Watch Dashboard. NASA has deemed the asteroid “stadium-sized” and reported it might be 621,000 miles from Earth on Tuesday night time, which is taken into account comparatively shut.
Though the asteroid shall be shut sufficient to Earth to be deemed a “potentially hazardous object,” it’s unlikely that Earth shall be impacted.
The asteroid is considered one of 5 that can go by Earth over the following two days, however the different rocky objects won’t come almost as shut as 2024 ON. The 4 asteroids shall be between 1.1 to three.9 million ft away from Earth, and three of the asteroids measure roughly 51 ft in diameter, which is the dimensions of a home.
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NASA introduced {that a} stadium-sized asteroid could be passing “relatively close” to Earth on Tuesday. (iStock)
One of many asteroids, named 2013 FW13, measures round 510 ft in diameter and can go by Earth on Wednesday.
NASA’s Asteroid Watch Dashboard tracks “asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to Earth.” In accordance to an information desk, 2024 ON was touring at round 8.8 kilometers per second on Tuesday morning, which is almost 20,000 miles per hour.
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2024 ON shall be 621,000 miles from Earth on Tuesday night time, NASA says. (NASA)
“The dashboard displays the date of closest approach, approximate object diameter, relative size and distance from Earth for each encounter,” the group’s web site explains.
“The dashboard displays the next five Earth approaches to within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers or 19.5 times the distance to the moon); an object larger than about 150 meters that can approach the Earth to within this distance is termed a potentially hazardous object.”
NASA introduced {that a} stadium-sized asteroid could be passing “relatively close” to Earth on Tuesday. (iStock)
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