The Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Centre for Near-Earth Objects (NEO) maintains a list of objects that may come close to Earth to understand the potential risk…
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) telescopes have found two 120-feet asteroids coming closer to the Earth…
Asteroids are celestial bodies that came into existence during the early formation of the solar system. They are primarily found in the asteroid belt
They can come very close to Earth and in case of a strike, asteroids can be very dangerous.
Two such asteroids, 2023JK, 2023 JD4 around 120 feet in size travelling at a speed of over 30000 Km per hour are approaching Earth
At their closest distance they will pass from a distance of around a million and two miles from the Earth.
Asteroids approaching Earth always make headlines because a collision with one could result in a massive disaster for human life.
Such a dash by asteroids have led to the extinction of Dinosaurs
NASA’s dashboard tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to Earth. The dashboard displays the date of the closest approach, approximate object diameter, relative size and distance from Earth for each encounter. It tracks asteroids that are within 7.5 million kilometres of Earth…
Last month such threat was there as Earth has escaped being hit by an asteroid of sizable size… All such objects are tracked by NASA… and projected that there is no immediate threat to Planet Earth…
