Beware! NASA telescope reveals 5 terrifying asteroids will come dangerously close to the Earth
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There are five gigantic asteroids which will approach the Earth at a dangerously close distance next week. The NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope has detected them ahead of time. Know how they were detected and the threat they pose.
There are hundreds of asteroids roaming around the Earth in the solar system. Some of them are as small as a pebble and some are bigger than the Moon. But a majority of them never come close to the Earth's vicinity. Those which do are called Near-Earth objects (NEO) and become objects of interest for scientists because they have the potential to strike the Earth someday and cause great destruction. NASA uses an infrared-based space telescope called Wide-field Infrared...