A newly found asteroid about the same size size of a house will pass between the Earth and the Moon on Friday, March 17, 2023.
It might sound a big distance, but large asteroids that come that close are defined as a potentially hazardous object.
However, the smaller—and completely non-threatening—2023 EY will get to within a fraction of that. It will pass a mere 149,000 miles/240,000 kilometers from Earth. That's slightly less than two-thirds of the Earth-Moon distance.
House-sized asteroid discovered this week will fly past Earth on Friday
A video NASA released on Wednesday shows the debris caused by the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission spacecraft slamming into the asteroid Dimorphos. (Courtesy: NASA / ESA / STScI / Jian-Yang Li (PSI) / Joseph DePasquale (STScI))
An asteroid the size of a house that was discovered Monday is projected to pass by Earth on Friday.
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"I feel like it looks like a happy fish swimming to the left with its nose kind of pointed up," Carolyn Ernst, a planetary scientist at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), said of a new high-resolution mosaic of Dimorphos, which was released on Monday (March 13) at the ...
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See The House-Sized Asteroid Found Monday Whizz By Earth This Week https://t.co/UvTjI2QJig https://t.co/iOBFC3sey6 Forbes (from New York, NY) Wed Mar 15 14:35:08 +0000 2023
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