A 200-foot asteroid discovered in February is expected to fly past Earth at about half the distance of the Moon on Saturday, posing no threat to the planet, this time.
that specializes in science-based reporting about the cosmos reported that asteroid 2023 DZ2 will make its closest approach to Earth on March 25 at about 3:52 p.m. EDT at a speed of 17,403 miles per hour.
An illustration of an asteroid. The asteroid roughly the size of Rome’s Colosseum — between 300 to 650 feet in length — has been detected by an international team of European astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. They used data from the calibration of the MIRI instrument, in which the team serendipitously detected an interloping asteroid.
The asteroid’s near-Earth approach this week has no chance of hitting earth, but it will give astronomers and specialists a close view of the object to get a better understanding of it and its orbit.
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