The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that the 2023 HO6 asteroid will pass close to Earth on Wednesday, July 5th.
This was reported by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), according to Ukrinform.
According to NASA, the length of the celestial body is about 171 m.
The distance from it to Earth will be about 2.05 million kilometers. The speed of the asteroid is 27,972 km/h.
If an asteroid approaches Earth at a distance of less than 7.4 million km and exceeds 150 m in size, NASA considers it a “potentially dangerous object.”
As Ukrinform reported, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reported that asteroid 467336 (2002 LT38) passed close to Earth on Saturday, June 24.
According to NASA, the length of the celestial body is about 256 m.