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Joel Kontinen
An asteroid called 2023 DZ2 will zip past the Earth at half the distance
the Earth is from the moon or about 173,000
kilometrers from Earth, The space rock that
caused such havoc in Russia was just 18 metres across . This
pace rock is between 44 and 99 meters in diametre.
The asteroid is known as an Apollo-class asteroid As according to evolution,, it hails
from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter,
It is three times the size of the one that blew out windows in Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013 will zip by Earth at half the distance of the moon on Saturday or March 25.
Source;
Pappas, Stephanie, 2023. Skyscraper-size asteroid will get closer to Earth than the moon on Saturday. Live Science, 21 March.
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