43-foot Apollo group asteroid to come as close as 1.6 mn km to Earth, says NASA
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In a new development, NASA's Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), responsible for monitoring the skies and watching various Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), has shed light on an asteroid that will pass Earth closely today, December 12. NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has designated this space rock as Asteroid 2023 XO1. The space agency uses its advanced ground and space-based telescopes such as NEOWISE telescope, Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), Pans-STARRS1 and Catalina Sky Survey to discover, track and categorize these space rocks. Know the details of this close encounter with Asteroid 2023 XO1.Asteroid 2023 XO1: Close approach detailsThe asteroid will pass Earth today, December 12, at a distance of 1.6 million kilometers. It is already rushing ...