Monday 31 October 2022

Asteroid will zip past Earth on November l








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Joel Kontinen 


NASA scientist have seen an asteroid that is "potentially hazardous".iit is to rush past earth just in time for Halloween,

It is called 2022 RM4 and it is almost as tall as the world’s tallest building in Burj Khalifa in Dubai and has a diameter of 330 and 740 meters or 1,083 and 2,428 feet

 The asteroid will come to within 2.3 million kilometres   or 2.3 million miles  on November 1. this distance is six times the average distance between Earth and the moon

Source:

Turner,  Ben , 2022,  A monstrously large, 'potentially hazardous' asteroid will zip through Earth's orbit on Halloween Live Science 28 October, ,