Seven asteroids passed close by the blue planet in the past few days between February 27 and March 5, including three that NASA has classified as “potentially dangerous.”
What is happening above our heads? According to information from Le Parisien, between February 27 and March 5, seven asteroids flew past Earth.
Three of them were under surveillance by the US space agency after being classified as “potentially dangerous”. Thus, on Monday February 27th and Tuesday February 28th, two bodies the size of basketball courts passed 4.8 and 3.6 million kilometers from our planet, respectively.
On the night of Friday March 3rd to Saturday March 4th, a third asteroid the size of a soccer field approached 4.5 million kilometers from Earth. As a reminder, NASA announced last January that the closest asteroid to Earth, designated 2023 BU, was measured at a distance of 3,600 kilometers, much closer than many geostationary satellites orbiting the planet.
If the distances these asteroids have recently come close to Earth remain farther away, NASA is closely monitoring the trajectories. In fact, in the event of a collision with another body, an asteroid could deviate and start a race to our planet.
Like the European Space Agency (ESA), NASA uses evaluation systems to monitor the various movements in order to anticipate possible collisions and, if necessary, uses the necessary means to deflect these bodies of rock.