An asteroid 1 kilometer wide will pass Earth at dawn on January 19, writes CNN. The object will be astronomically close, 1.9 million kilometers away.
The 1994 celestial body PC1 was discovered in 1994.
The object will probably not be observable with the naked eye, but it can be observed by amateur astronomers using binoculars.
NASA and its partners are constantly searching for potentially dangerous celestial bodies on Earth, but so far they have not found any object that would pose a real threat. Nevertheless, experts are trying to prepare for a possible collision, and our technology is slowly advanced enough to defend against dangerous celestial bodies. NASA launched the DART missionaimed at hijacking the moon of an asteroid.
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