This massive asteroid will come as close as possible to Earth at a distance of about 2.05 million kilometers.
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that on Wednesday, July 5, a potentially dangerous asteroid called 2023 HO6 will fly close to Earth. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports.
It is known that an object in space with a length of about 171 meters is moving towards our planet at an incredible speed of 27,972 km / h. The distance from it to Earth will be about 2.05 million kilometers.
It is noted that all asteroids that are within about 200 million km from the Earth are called near Earth, and if they approach our planet at a distance closer than 7.8 million km, they are given the status of potentially dangerous , because they can be threatening. the world.
It was previously reported that the NASA rover set a new record for oxygen production on Mars.
Source: korrespondent
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