Asteroid 2002 BF25 will pass very close to Earth's orbit on July 21: NASA

ncy NASA, since its inception, has been keeping a keen eye and tracking course of several hundreds of asteroids that could potentially be hazardous to human life on Earth. NASA has deployed specific Asteroid watching satellites to discover and gar information about movement of several asteroids.

Apart from tracking movement of discovered asteroids, ncy also shares information gared on its official website. Read on to kw if incoming asteroid 2002 BF25 is potentially hazardous to humans.

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Asteroid 2002 BF25 to pass close to Earth's Orbit

Asteroid 2002 BF25 was first discovered by NASA on January 25, 2002, hence lending asteroid its unique name. Since it’s discovery American ncy has been tracking its course. According to NASA’s official website, most recent observation NASA made of rock was on July 18, 2020. 

Hence, as per ncy’s observations, Asteroid 2002 BF25 is set to pass extremely close to Earth on Tuesday, July 21, 2020. According to NASA’s official website, it has been tracking asteroid's movements across Sun to calculate how close it will come to Earth.

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Asteroid to hit Earth: Is Asteroid potentially hazardous? 

According to NASA, Asteroids that orbit Sun within 30 million miles of Earth are called Near-Earth Objects or NEOS. Reports of a portal suggest that, if an asteroid which is larger than 450 feet comes closer than 4 million miles, it is designated as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid or PHA. According to reports of a portal, Asteroid 2002 BF25 is size of a school bus.

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NASA reports claim that Asteroid 2002 BF25 will pass from a minal distance of 0.24 AU from Earth. When converts into miles this distance become 2 million miles. Hence, Asteroid 2002 BF25 is potentially hazardous. However, warning has been generated by ncy yet.

This might mean that as per NASA’s calculations of Asteroids course, it is expected to pass safely without causing any potential danger to planet. On August 5, 2020, ar Asteroid named 2009 PQ1 is set to pass only about 2 million miles away from Earth. Hence, Asteroid  2009 PQ1 is also in  Potentially Hazardous zone.