Suara.com – a asteroid the size of a skyscraper will burn the earth’s atmosphere in the new year.
NASA naming the big rock Asteroid 2013 YD48 and label it a “potentially dangerous object”.
The 2013 asteroid YD48 will pass 3.48 million miles from Earth on January 11.
As the page slides Mirror, Saturday (1/1/2022), the asteroid’s width is approximately 104 meters, meaning that it is wider than Big Ben’s height.
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Even though 3.48 million miles would miss Earth, in terms of distance in space, it’s not really that far away.
It has been reported that NASA classifies anything that passes within 120 million miles of Earth as a Near-Earth Object (NEO).
Because of the distance they fly from, a small change in their trajectory could be fatal to Earth.
Scientists tracked these thousands to observe whether or not they were on a collision course with Earth.
Asteroid 2013 YD48 isn’t the only asteroid to approach Earth in the coming weeks.
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There are three more set to pass through Earth before doing so.
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