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An Eiffel Tower-sized asteroid will “graze” Earth on Wednesday

2023-04-25T17:30:59.838Z


The asteroid, named 2006 HV5, is deemed "potentially dangerous" by NASA because of its relatively rare size.


An asteroid 304.8 meters in diameter, almost the height of the Eiffel Tower, is expected to pass within 1.5 million kilometers of Earth on Wednesday.

This space rock will pass the blue planet at a speed of around 6000 km/h, according to the Center for the Study of Near-Earth Objects (CNEOS).

Scientific data that prompted NASA to classify 2006 HV5 in the “

potentially dangerous

” category of the catalog currently composed of 2300 meteors.

This classification is based on the size and distance of a space object from a planet.

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The meteor is also considered rare by the CNEOS.

On average, an asteroid of this size will not approach Earth again for a year.

Despite these worrying elements, 2006 HV5 is not in danger of crashing on our planet.

The impressive asteroid was spotted in 2006 by NASA, which allowed scientists to study its trajectory precisely upstream.

Astronomers are able to calculate its orbit and therefore its past, present and future locations, very precisely

,” astrophysicist Suzanna Kohler told American media Fox News.

The Earth will therefore not block the asteroid.

Source: lefigaro

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