Two Airplane-Sized Asteroids to Skirt Past Earth, Reports NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced that two asteroids, each comparable in size to an aircraft, are set to swoosh past our planet.
NASA's website recently revealed that a duo of airplane-sized asteroids will perform a close flyby of Earth today. Intriguingly, a building-sized asteroid is also expected to approach our planet on the same day. Following this, two more asteroids will draw near to Earth on Monday.
The three asteroids set to come close to Earth have an average size of around 73 meters. Any celestial object larger than approximately 150 meters and capable of approaching Earth within a certain distance is termed a potentially hazardous object by NASA.
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