NASA reveals 2,000ft wide asteroid will fly past Earth on Dec 26

scientists at NASA have revealed that a 2,000 feet wide asteroid will pass earth's surface with a speed of 27,000 mph in early hours of December 26. group of scientists is monitoring movement of massive asteroid kwn as '310442 (2000 CH59)'. y expect that heavenly mass will be closest to earth on December 26 at 7:54 am. ncy's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has studied object and measured diameter of object to be approximately 2,034 feet. Paul Chodas, director of CNEOS said that se asteroids may evolve for a long period of time into Earth-crossing orbits. It is officially termed as 'near-Earth object' when any comet or asteroid with a path around sun takes it within 121 million miles of star and 30 million miles of our orbit.

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Asteroid to fly past Earth

scientists have classified rock as potentially hazardous as it measures more than 460ft in diameter. Its projected trajectory is expected to take it within 0.05 astromical units of Earth. In September this year, two relatively smaller size asteroids flew safely past Earth. NASA was tracking asteroids, one since 2000 and or since 2010. NASA in a statement said that near-earth asteroid 2010 C01, estimated to be 400 to 850 feet (120 to 260 meters) in size flew past Earth at 11:42 pm EDT on September 13, while second object, 2000 QW7 which is estimated to be 950 to 2,100 feet (290 to 650 meters) in size flew past later at 7:54 pm EDT on September 14. 

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In ar case this year, NASA detected a tiny, harmless object that broke up in atmosphere and impacted Caribbean sea on June 22, 2019. It was captured by Geostationary Lightning Mapper instrument aboard GOES-16, an Earth-monitoring satellite operated by AA and NASA. asteroid was only about 16 feet (5 meters) in size and was detected at 9:45 am on Saturday, June 22 by University of Hawaii's ATLAS survey telescope on Maunaloa in Hawaii.

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