Thursday 07/September/2023 – 02:29 PM
An asteroid the size of a large house will pass near Earth next Wednesday, along with 4 other asteroids, and four more space rocks are set to follow in the coming days, according to NASA’s Asteroid Monitoring Panel.
5 asteroids will pass near Earth during the next week
The large asteroid, about 60 feet across, called JA5, was discovered in 2021 and is expected to be 3.17 million miles away from Earth.
5 asteroids will pass near Earth during the next week
The other four asteroids range in length from 26 to 170 feet, and NASA describes their sizes as planes or buses.
NASA defines potentially hazardous objects as asteroids and comets larger than 500 feet in size.
5 asteroids will pass near Earth during the next week
Recently, a huge 170-foot asteroid was discovered, which is approaching 946,000 miles from Earth, in addition to the discovery of a 68-foot asteroid, and it is expected to move 1.65 million miles away on the same day.
And NASA said that it had discovered more than 32,000 asteroids near Earth, as of last week.
What are asteroids?
An asteroid, asteroid, or a rotating planet is a small planet that orbits around the sun or around a cosmic body such as the planets of the solar system, and this name is often applied to those in the inner solar system.
An asteroid was historically named for any astronomical body that takes the sun as its orbit, and its orbit does not have the circular shape available for the planets, and it did not notice special features of active comets such as the presence of a tail.