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58-foot asteroid nearing Earth at a staggering speed of 50940 kmph
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58-foot asteroid nearing Earth at a staggering speed of 50940 kmph

[ad_1] Do you know that every day, our planet is bombarded with more than 100 tons of dust and sand sized particles. While, about once a year an automobile-sized asteroid hits Earth's atmosphere, creates an impressive fireball, and burns up before very small pieces of it hit the surface, NASA says. But this does not mean that the asteroids zooming towards Earth are always threat free, which makes it important for NASA to track their trajectory.As per the latest information provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), three asteroids are zooming towards planet Earth. The size of the biggest asteroid is 99 feet. Then there is 47-foot asteroid and another is 58-foot. 58-foot asteroid 2021 GN1This house-sized asteroid will be nearing Earth today at a distance of 6.79 million kilomete...
46-foot asteroid racing towards Earth today at 38844 kmph, says NASA
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46-foot asteroid racing towards Earth today at 38844 kmph, says NASA

[ad_1] Did you know that asteroids are also sometimes called minor planets? Or, for that matter, that there are currently 1277973 known asteroids? Well, now you know. These asteroids vary in sizes and some of them are also potentially hazardous. For the uninitiated, Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are currently defined based on parameters that measure the asteroid's potential to make threatening close approaches to the Earth. Specifically, all asteroids with a minimum orbit intersection distance (MOID) of 0.05 au or less and an absolute magnitude (H) of 22.0 or less are considered PHAs, according to NASA. What if any of these potentially hazardous asteroids strikes Earth?NASA constantly keeps an eye on the movement and trajectory of the asteroids to ensure that they do not come d...