A diagram of the
orbit of the asteroid 2002 NV16 around the sun
Joel Kontinen
Four reasonably
large asteroids hurtleds past Earth yesterday, The ”potentially hazardous"
space rocks, which are between 30 metres (100 feet) or 207 metres (580 feet) across. They will all make their closest they were
found within less than 12 hours ago.
Two of them were
only discovered earlier this month. The first asteroid is the 2015 HM1 which will hurtled past us at 5.5 kilometres or 3.4 miles from us, at its closest. The next
asteroid will zoom after the first one.
The final two
asteroids — 2002 V16 and 2024 TR6 — will zoom us by make the closest approaches just four minutes of each other. 2002 NV16, is
around 177 metres across, making it the largest of
the four, will zoom us by reach a minimum distance of 2.8 million miles (4.5
million km from us) at around us. It will be quickly followed by the 46 metres steroid
(150-foot-wide) 2024 TR6, which will come within 3.5 million miles (5.6 million
km) of Earth.
Source:
Harry
Baker, 2024.
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