Big Asteroid the Size of Washington Monument To Zoom Past Earth Today
Big Asteroid the Size of Washington Monument To Zoom Past Earth Today On 2/10/21 at 12:35 PM EST A large asteroid roughly the size of the Washington Monument is set to fly past Earth today, data from NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) shows. The space rock, dubbed 2019 YP5, will come within around 1.9 million miles of our planet at 12:58 p.m. ET on February 10, equivalent to roughly eight times the average distance between Earth and the moon. At the time of close approach, the asteroid will be traveling at around 30,000 miles per hour, some forty times faster than the speed o...
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