Bridge-sized asteroid to come as close as 5.5mn km to Earth, reveals NASA

Bridge-sized asteroid to come as close as 5.5mn km to Earth, reveals NASA

Telescopes such as NEOWISE, Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), Pans-STARRS1, and Catalina Sky Survey help NASA track and study asteroids that are present in space. After studying the data, the US space agency has shed light on an asteroid that is expected to pass Earth by a close margin today, December 6. This asteroid is …

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Aircraft-sized asteroid to pass Earth today, reveals NASA

Aircraft-sized asteroid to pass Earth today, reveals NASA

With its vast number of ground and space-based telescopes and observatories, NASA has discovered as many as 1298148 to date, and one of them is predicted to pass Earth by a close margin today, November 16. NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has designated this space rock as Asteroid 2023 VL5. During its flyby, …

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