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The asteroid discovered in 2020 is set to make an astronomically close approach early on Wednesday more than 1.37 million miles from our planet, more than five times the average distance to the Moon.
2022 AE 1 is a Tunguska event-sized asteroid, classified as a near-Earth object of the Apollo group, approximately 70 meters (230 feet) in diameter. [5] It was discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey on 6 January 2022, when it was 0.09 AU (13 million km ) from Earth. [ 1 ]
The 7,600-foot long celestial object has earned the nickname ‘planet killer,’ flying at speeds of 58,000 miles per hour
2022 RM 4 is categorized as a potentially hazardous asteroid because it is around 400 meters in diameter [3] [a] and makes close approaches to Earth. It was discovered on 12 September 2022 when it was 0.61 AU (91 million km) from Earth and located at declination +65 near the northern circumpolar star Zeta Draconis.
2022 EB 5 was a small, two-metre Apollo near-Earth asteroid that disintegrated in Earth's atmosphere at 21:22 UTC on 11 March 2022, over the Arctic Ocean southwest of the Norwegian island Jan Mayen. With an atmospheric entry speed of 18 km/s (11 mi/s), the asteroid's impact generated a 4-kiloton-equivalent fireball that was detected by ...
Watch live as a Nasa spacecraft returns to Earth with the largest asteroid sample in history on Sunday 24 September. After a seven-year, four-billion-mile journey across space, the ambitious NASA ...
The first asteroid flyby within 1 LD of Earth in 2022 was asteroid 2021 YK (10–20 meters in diameter), which was observed on 27 December 2021 04:40 UT (when it was about 3.8 million km from Earth) and passed 0.49 LD (190 thousand km) from Earth on 2 January 2022. The largest asteroid to pass within 1 LD of Earth in 2022 was 2022 TM 2 with an ...
An asteroid the size of a house sped past Earth at 2,000mph (7200km/h) on Sunday, June 25. The Virtual Telescope Project by Gianluca Masi in Italy recorded footage showing the near-Earth object ...