NASA DISCOVERS A NEW ASTEROID THE SIZE OF THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, WHICH WILL MAKE ITS CLOSEST APPROACH ON MARCH 24

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Another potentially deadly asteroid is rushing towards Earth, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and will make its closest approach on March 24. The space rock called 2013 BO76 has a diameter of 450 metres and would pass our planet at a distance of 51,11,759 kilometres, making it bigger than the Empire State Building. Furthermore, the enormous asteroid would travel at a speed of 49,513 kilometres per hour, posing little threat to Earth due to the distance between them.

The JPL even issued a map depicting the asteroid's orbit, which intersects with that of the Earth and even Mars. The asteroid's orbit is displayed in white in the image, while the orbits of Earth and Mars are represented in blue and red, respectively. In 2013, the asteroid 2013 BO76 passed closest to Earth, at a distance of 78,88,295 kilometres. The next approach will take place on July 14, 2033, at a distance of 1,91,85,926 kilometres, according to NASA's JPL. This is the first space rock discovered after an asteroid collided with the Earth's atmosphere just two hours before it was discovered over the Norwegian Sea.

The asteroid had reached the southwest of Jan Mayen, a Norwegian island roughly 470 kilometres off the east coast of Greenland and northeast Iceland, and was initially seen using the Piszkéstet Observatory in northern Hungary. The asteroid was named 2022 EB5 and measured less than two metres in diameter. According to NASA, objects of this size are only identified a few minutes before they collide. "Exceedingly few of these asteroids have been spotted in orbit and observed extensively prior to impact, mostly because they are very weak until the last few hours," said Paul Chodas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Naturally, the larger the asteroid, the sooner it can be detected and the less time is needed to prepare for a possible collision. The purpose, according to the agency, is to maintain track of such asteroids and compute their trajectories in order to have many years' notice before a potential impact if one is ever discovered.

 

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