NASA announces when a huge space rock will fall to Earth
NASA announced that a large rock would approach Earth’s orbit in the middle of this month.
NASA scientists are tracking the space rock, which has a diameter of about one kilometer, and is classified as a near-Earth object and is called 199145 (2005 YY128).
It is scheduled to embrace the rock in the orbit of the planet next week. According to reports, its width is estimated between 570 m and 1300 m.
The rock is estimated to approach Earth by about 4.5 million kilometers (2.8 million miles) from Earth on February 16, with NASA not confident enough to comment on whether it will actually crash into Earth’s orbit and cause any damage to the planet.
This comes just two weeks after another huge asteroid passed Earth in one of the closest encounters ever recorded, but failed to make an impact in any way.
Asteroid 2023 BU was discovered only on January 21, and was only 2,200 miles from Earth’s surface, as it flew over the southern tip of South America in the early morning hours of January 27.
