The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the USA has alerted of a bus-sized asteroid approaching the Earth today.
The American space agency has about the asteroid that is expected to make its closest approach to the human planet today.
As per the official asteroid watch page of NASA, the asteroid named 2023 JL1 is a 39-foot bus-sized asteroid that will pass by the Earth today at a distance of around 25,00,000 kilometers, travelling at a speed of around 26,316 kilometers in an hour.
The scientists of NASA have also alerted about two other big size asteroids named 2023 JO1 and 2023 JD2, which are also expected to make their closest approach to Earth in the near future.
The JO1 is a 46 feet asteroid, almost as big as a house that will pass by the Earth at a distance of 2,990,000 km, while the 2023 JD2 is an aero plane sized 200 feet huge asteroid that is expected to mark its closest approach to Earth at a distance of 5,630,000 km.
NASA dashboard keeps a track on asteroids and comets which will make closes approaches to Earth.
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The dashboard reflects the date of the approach of each asteroid that are in the range of 7.5 million kilometers of Earth, its size, diameter, and its relative distance from the Earth.
NASA says asteroids are the leftovers from the formation of the solar system which began around 4.6 billion years ago after a huge cloud of gas and dust collapsed. During the formation, most of the material and the components gathered at the center and a result sun was formed. While some of the condensing dust in the cloud resulted becoming planets.
Asteroids are all different in size and shape because the locations of their formations lie at different distances from the sun. Two asteroids never look alike.
As per some reports, some 30,000 asteroids of different size group- 850 out of which are larger than a kilometer, have been included in the Earth’s vicinity labelling them as Near Earth Objects(NEOs) but none of them pose a threat for Earth at least for the next thirty years.
The tracking of asteroids becomes important as most of them are made of rocks and different minerals and while making their approach towards the earth hold high chances of hitting the planet causing a destruction to the human life.
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