An asteroid the size of a 3-storey building will graze the earth this Sunday – La Nouvelle Tribune

2023-06-24 12:27:52

The American space agency, NASA, has detected an asteroid that will pass close to Earth. According to information reported by the American media Fox News, it is a space rock the size of a three-story building that is expected to pass close to the earth at a distance of 215,652.096 kilometers. The asteroid, named 2023 MU2, will make its near-earth pass tomorrow Sunday, June 25, 2023 at 7:19 p.m. ET. The information was confirmed by the site Space.com who pointed out that the asteroid was discovered a week ago.

An asteroid approached the earth yesterday

The NASA Space Research Center, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, emphasized that 2023 MU2 is not the only asteroid that will pass close to Earth in recent days. Indeed, several space rocks are concerned. Among these is an asteroid the size of a bus that will approach the earth this Saturday, June 24, 2023 at a distance of 260,713.728 kilometers. Another asteroid with a size comparable to that of a car had approached the earth yesterday Friday, at a distance of 123919.49 kilometers. Note that this is not the first time that NASA has announced the passage of an asteroid near Earth.

During the month of April, the American space agency announced the passage of an asteroid close to the earth. The asteroid named 2023 HW2 was a size comparable to that of a basketball court, according to NASA, which had estimated it at 27 meters. The American agency had estimated that the asteroid would be at a distance of 2.3 million kilometers from Earth, while specifying that there was little risk of collision with the blue planet. As a reminder, a few months earlier, NASA had announced that in 23 years and more precisely on Valentine’s Day, a huge asteroid might end its course on Earth. It would be an asteroid comparable to a handball court.

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