2011 ES4 Asteroid had its closest approach to Earth's surface on September 1

An asteroid called 2011 ES4 recently h a very close encounter with Earth as it skimmed past our planet at a distance far closer than moon. 2011 ES4 is an Apollo asteroid that was first spotted by researchers back in 2011 and it passes by our planet every nine years. asteroid also h its closest approach to Earth in 2011 on March 13. With its earlier close approach, asteroid was visible from planet Earth for up to four days.

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2011 ES4 Asteroid h an extremely close approach to Earth on September 1 at around 12:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). ncy NASA explained that asteroid’s close approach to Earth is in sense of an astromical scale. It h also revealed that ES4 2011 would t pose any kind of harm as re was risk of it hitting  planet.

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Was 2011 ES4 visible?

2011 ES4 Asteroid in September 2020 h a very close approach to Earth's surface and was also visible from planet. According to NASA Asteroid Watch's tweet, asteroid safely zoomed past planet at a distance of atleast 45,000 miles, which is a very close distance. It was travelling at around 18,253 miles per hour (29,375 km) when it skimmed past Earth. Also, recent approach to planet was much closer than previous one.

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2011 ES4 Asteroid’s estimated diameter is between 22 to 49 meters. NASA has alrey included this asteroid on its Center for NEO Studies' database of Close Approaches.

It also states that Near-Earth Objects include asteroids and comets that are prodded through gravitational attraction of jacent spheres into orbit of sun. This is what allows both asteroids and comets to fly near planet Earth. 2011 ES4 has also been called a potentially dangerous asteroid by ncy, however, it was realised that it did t pose any kind of threat due to its diameter which is considerably small in size.

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