The American space agency NASA has discovered an asteroid that will fly close to Earth. According to American media FoxNewsIt’s a space rock the size of a three-story building that’s supposed to fly close to Earth at a distance of 135,652.096 kilometers. The asteroid, named 2023 MU2, will make its near Earth flyby tomorrow, Sunday, June 25, 2023 at 19:19 ET. The information has been confirmed by the website Space.com who pointed out that the asteroid was discovered a week ago.
An asteroid approached Earth yesterday
The NASA Space Research Center Jet Propulsion Laboratory, stressed that 2023 MU2 is not the only asteroid that will pass close to Earth in the last few days. In fact, several space rocks are affected. Among them is a bus-sized asteroid approaching Earth this Saturday, June 24, 2023, at a distance of 160,000,000 miles. Another car-sized asteroid approached Earth yesterday Friday at a distance of 123919.49 kilometers. Note that this isn’t the first time NASA has announced an asteroid flyby near Earth.
In April, the American space agency reported the flyby of an asteroid near Earth. The asteroid named 2023HW2 The size was comparable to that of a basketball court, according to NASA, which had estimated it at 27 meters. The American agency had estimated that the asteroid would be at a distance of 2.3 million kilometers from Earth, but indicated that there was little risk of colliding with the blue planet. As a reminder, a few months earlier, NASA had announced that in 23 years, on Valentine’s Day to be precise, a giant asteroid could complete its course on Earth. It would be an asteroid comparable to a handball field.