Asteroid shaves past Earth in one of closest flybys ever recorded
Don't freak out, but an asteroid the size of a large truck had a "very close encounter" with Earth Thursday night, according to NASA.
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Don't freak out, but an asteroid the size of a large truck had a "very close encounter" with Earth Thursday night, according to NASA.
The small asteroid will fly by Earth with a close approach estimated to be 23% of the Moon’s proximate distance to our planet.
The European Space Agency has stricken 2021 QMI from the asteroid risk as the asteroid impact will not happen for the next 100 years.
NASA has predicted the blue-whale-size asteroid will safely pass Earth by a significant distance of over 2.2 million miles (3.5 million kilometers).
The asteroid—known as 7335 (1989 JA)—will come as close as 2.5 million miles to the Earth while traveling at 47,200 miles per hour.