Asteroid, larger than the Empire State Building, flies past Earth

The closest comes Celestial bodies Earth on Saturday June 6th. The distance between 163348 (2002 NN4) will then be a little more than 5 million kilometers, which is about 13 times the distance from Earth to Moon. It takes 300 days asteroid for one orbit around the sun. Every 14.5 days it completes a rotation around its own axis.

Loud NASA calculations will be 25 in June alone Asteroids come close to earth. 163348 (2002 NN4) becomes the largest Celestial bodies be.

Dangerously close to the satellite

Just a month ago is the asteroid 2020 HS7 flew extremely close to Earth. It was loud ESA only around 42,000 kilometers from the center of the earth and only 1,200 kilometers from the nearest satellite. The diameter of the chunk is estimated at 4 to 8 meters.

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