An asteroid flies past Earth

 

Image courtesy of: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/CalTech

Joel Kontinen

A newly discovered asteroid the size of an airplane will have 'very close encounter' with Earth on Saturday — and you can watch it happen.

A space rock that is called asteroid 2024 BJ will come within 354 000 kilometres or 220,000 miles from earth, on the 27th, i.e. Saturday.  

The asteroid is 37 meters 121-foot-wide. It flies around at a distance that is closer to us than the average distance to the moon.

 

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Sascha Pare 2024. Airplane-size asteroid will have 'very close encounter' with Earth on Saturday — and you can watch it happen | Live Science 26 January