A skyscraper-size asteroid cruising the cosmos at 35,000 mph (56,000 km/h) will make a relatively close approach to Earth Thursday (April 6), zooming past our planet at about 7.5 times the average distance between Earth and the moon, according to NASA.
The space rock's formidable size, coupled with its uncomfortably close trajectory, earns it the title of a potentially hazardous asteroid (opens in new tab) (PHA), meaning a space rock that could measure larger than 460 feet (140 m) in diameter and that could come within 4.65 million miles ...
'Potentially hazardous' asteroid twice the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza will skim past us ...
Keep your wits about you this afternoon, as an asteroid described as 'potentially hazardous' will be making its closest approach to Earth.
The space rock, called 2023 FM, is estimated to be up to 853ft (260m) in diameter - that's twice the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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OSIRIS-REx arrived at Bennu more than two years after launch and successfully entered into orbit around the asteroid at an altitude of about 19 miles. From December 2018 until October 2020, the craft remained in orbit, studying Bennu from a short distance.
It had to dip its toe because landing would have been disastrous. We think of asteroids as hulking, solid rocks drifting through space. Some of them are like that, but others are loosely affiliated collections of rock, dust, ice, and gas, held together only through the gentle influence of gravity.
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