The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is monitoring a massive asteroid that is expected to come close to Earth on Tuesday night.
The rocky object, which has been named 2024 ON, has a diameter of 950 feet, according to NASA’s Asteroid Watch Dashboard. NASA has considered the asteroid “stadium-sized” and reported that it would be 621,000 miles from Earth on Tuesday night, which is considered relatively close.
Although the asteroid will be close enough to the earth to be considered a “potentially hazardous object” it is unlikely to affect Earth.
The asteroid is one of five that will pass Earth in the next two days, but the other rocky objects will not come close by 2024 ON. The four asteroids will be between 1.1 and 3.9 million miles from Earth, and three of the asteroids measure about 51 feet in diameter, which is the size of a house.
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NASA announced that a stadium-sized asteroid would pass “relatively close” to Earth on Tuesday. (iStock)
One of the asteroids, named 2013 FW13, measures about 510 feet in diameter and will pass Earth on Wednesday.
NASA’s Asteroid Watch Dashboard tracks “asteroids and comets that will approach Earth relatively close.” According to a data table, 2024 ON was traveling at about 8.8 kilometers per second on Tuesday morning, which is almost 20,000 miles per hour.
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2024 ON will be 621,000 miles from Earth on Tuesday night, NASA says. (NASA)
“The dashboard displays the date of closest approach, approximate object diameter, relative size and distance from Earth for each encounter,” the organization’s website explains.
“The instrument panel shows the next five approaches to Earth within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers or 19.5 times the distance to the Moon); an object larger than about 150 meters that can approach Earth within this distance is called a potentially dangerous object.”
NASA announced that a stadium-sized asteroid would pass “relatively close” to Earth on Tuesday. (iStock)
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