Meteor that comes very close to the earth on April 6..!?

Sowmiya Sriram
Meteor that comes very close to the earth on april 6..!?

NASA, the American space research center, has explained about a meteorite that will come very close to the earth on april 6. Warnings about meteorites approaching the earth are published from time to time. Their impact on Earth is thought to be catastrophic. Recently, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported on the future of asteroids heading toward Earth. The US space agency nasa has said that five asteroids will approach the Earth and two of them will be the closest to the Earth.
NASA's Asteroid watch Dashboard continues to monitor asteroids and comets. Each asteroid gives details of the estimated date of approach to Earth, the approximate diameter of the asteroid, and its distance from Earth. The next largest asteroid named as 2023 FZ3, is about the size of a flight. It is predicted to fly past Earth on april 6. The 150 feet wide meteorite is moving towards Earth at a speed of 67656 kmph. Its closest approach to Earth is predicted to pass at a distance of 4,190,000 km. However, it is not considered hazardous to Earth.
About 30,000 meteorites of varying sizes have been cataloged as near-Earth objects. None of them are said to threaten Earth for the next 100 years. nasa says the meteorites have remained in space since then. Recently, nasa discovered a meteorite the size of an Olympic swimming pool. nasa predicts that it still has a small chance of hitting Earth on Valentine's Day 23 years from now.
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