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1.7km Asteroid Heading Towards Earth Will Safely Pass Our Planet, NASA Says
On 3/9/21 at 12:26 PM EST
NASA has posted a tweet reassuring Earth that the planet will not be devastated by an asteroid impact on March 21 when a large asteroid is due to pass by.
The asteroid, called 2001 FO32, will pass the Earth at a distance of around 1.2 million miles, or more than five times the distance between our planet and the moon.
This distance may seem enormous but is quite close in astronomical terms. Additionally, the asteroid is thought to be unusually large, with NASA s upper estimate giving it a diameter of just over one mile, or 1.7km.
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NASA is warning of the second 'stadium-sized' asteroid headed towards the Earth in as many weeks, shortly after announcing the postponement of its critical planetary defense mission to 2022. On February 27, the asteroid 2021 DE, with a diameter.