Asteroid as wide as the Golden Gate Bridge to fly past Earth in March

An asteroid as wide as Golden Gate Bridge will hurtle past Earth in March, however, scientists have said that re is reason to panic, even though asteroid will be biggest and speediest to fly by our planet this year. According to a data-based published by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, rock, kwn as 231937 (2001 FO32), is about 0.8 to 1.7km in diameter and will come within 2 million kilometres of Earth at 11:03am EST on March 21. asteroid is close and large eugh to be classified as “potentially hazardous”. 

It is worth ting that an asteroid is designated as “potentially hazardous” when its orbit intersects with Earth’s at a distance of more than about 7.5 million kilometres and it is bigger than about 140 meters in diameter. According to Live Science, telescopes in New Mexico that are part of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) program detected asteroid on March 23, 2001. Observatories have monitored it ever since and scientists have used se observations to calculate asteroid’s orbit and determine how close rock will come to Earth when it flies past at almost 124,000km/h. 

One can even spot fast-moving rock with help of a telescope with an aperture of at least 8 inches. To catch a glimpse in sourn US, point telescope south-souast between constellations of Sagittarius and Corona Australis at 4:45am EST on March 20.

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significant risk for next 100 years  

According to NASA, kwn asteroid poses a significant risk to Earth for next 100 years. US ncy informed that current biggest kwn threat is an asteroid called (410777) 2009 FD, which has a 1 in 714 (less than 0.2%) chance of hitting Earth in 2185. Furr, NASA is also studying methods of deflecting asteroids that do end up on a collision course with Earth, such as by using gravity of a flying craft to slowly pull asteroid off ir trajectory to a safe distance. 

Meanwhile, in a similar occurrence,  a huge asteroid, which is bigger than size of Eiffel Tower passed earth on February 1, as stated by NASA's Asteroid Watch called Central for Near-Earth Object Studies. Termed as 2016 CL136 measures 2016 CL136, as per report. Also, experts say that asteroid is expected to come 3.3 million miles from Earth. 

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