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A potentially dangerous asteroid is rapidly approaching Earth

A potentially dangerous asteroid is rapidly approaching Earth

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This space object is among the top five largest known potentially dangerous asteroids.

An international team of scientists has discovered a large Apollo-type space object that has long been hidden from sunlight.

Speaking of which in shape The Observers.

Note that this object, dubbed 2022 AP7, is between 1.1 and 2.3 km in diameter, making it the largest potentially hazardous asteroid discovered in about eight years.

2022 AP7 was first seen at the Cerro Tololo-DECam Observatory in Chile on January 13, 2022.

The minimum Earth-orbit-crossing distance for 2022 AP7 is 0.0475 astronomical units. The perihelion of the asteroid’s orbit is about 0.83 astronomical units from the Sun.

Cursor wrote it earlier scientists have explained why the moon is visible during the day.

Also, our site reported it confirmed the general theory of relativity on a galactic scale.

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