2022 asteroids Archives

According to Live Science, an asteroid the size of a stadium will fly past the Earth in the wee hours of Thursday. By the time you read this, the asteroid will likely be happily cruising toward the Sun at a speed of roughly 20 miles (32 km) per second. It is not unusual for asteroids to orbit the Earth in close proximity. The fact that it will pass very close to the globe makes it a little frightening, and it gets worse when astronomers only manage to identify it a few days before it passes. Object 2022 OE2 These asteroids include the asteroid 2022 OE2, which was unknown to astronomers when it approached the Earth. According to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Next Five Asteroid Approaches homepage, the asteroid is roughly 700 feet (213 m) in size, or about the size of a stadi...

Two enormous asteroids the size of buildings will fly past the Earth as you relax this weekend, according to NASA's Asteroid Watch. Asteroids, also referred to as the asteroid belt, are objects made of rock, dust, and metallic minerals that predominantly reside in the space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. However, some asteroids deviate from this path and are outside Neptune's orbit, while others approach the Sun more closely. These asteroids are categorized as Near-Earth Objects because they occasionally approach Earth very closely while traveling through the Earth's orbit (NEOs). An asteroid must be within 1.3 astronomical units (AU) of Earth to be classified as a NEO, or it must be at least 460 feet (140 m) away from the Sun to qualify as a potentially dangerous object (PHO)...

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A large asteroid that was discovered last month is currently moving 20 miles per second toward Earth.

Today and tomorrow, asteroids the size of skyscrapers will whiz by the Earth.