A large, potentially dangerous asteroidExpected to travel less than six lunar miles from Earth at the start of next month
The asteroid, known as 2022 RM4, is expected to pass by Earth on Nov. 1 – about 1.5 million miles away at its closest point.
NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies estimated that the asteroid measures between 330 to 740 meters or more than 2,400 feet in diameter.
It will The blue planet is just a few steps awayAccording to LiveScience, it is approximately 52,500 miles an hour
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Asteroid above Earth
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A “near-Earth object” is any space object located within 120 million miles from Earth.
Any large body located within 4.6 million miles from Earth is considered a “potentially dangerous asteroid”.
In this image made available by NASA, debris ejects from the asteroid Dimorphos, right, a few minutes after the intentional collision of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission on Sept. 26, 2022, captured by the nearby Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube. NASA announced that the spacecraft successfully shifted its orbit on Tuesday, October 5, 2022l.
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2022 RM4 is also an Apollo-type asteroidThis is a group of objects named after the asteroid Apollo 1862 Apollo.
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Such asteroids have an orbit that is larger than Earth’s orbit around the sun and their path crosses Earth’s path.
2002 RM4 orbits the Sun every 1,397 days and its path does occasionally cross Earth’s orbital path around the Sun.
This imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope from Oct. 8, 2022, shows the debris blasted from the surface of Dimorphos 285 hours after the asteroid was intentionally impacted by NASA’s DART spacecraft on Sept. 26.
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NASA says Earth is safe from any known dangerFor at least the next century, from an apocalyptic collision of asteroid.
Additionally, the agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft (DART), recently sent the non-hazardous Dimorphos off course.
