A giant asteroid the size of a blue whale is heading towards Earth at a speed of 27 times the speed of sound, and it is supposed to pass through Earth during the next few days, specifically next Friday, August 12, and it is indicated that the asteroid is “potentially dangerous” Earth.
The asteroid, named 2015 FF, has an estimated diameter of between 42 and 92 feet (13 and 28 metres), or about the length of an adult blue whale’s body, and will pass Earth at 20,512 mph (33,012 km/h).
Notably, NASA knows the location and orbit of nearly 28,000 asteroids, which it identifies using the Last Terrestrial Collision Alert System (ATLAS), a group of four telescopes capable of scanning the entire night sky once every 24 hours.
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