It will blaze past us at 23,300 mph.
NASA flags any space object that comes within 120 million miles of Earth as a"near-Earth object" and any fast-moving object within 4.65 million miles as"potentially hazardous." Once the objects are flagged, astronomers closely monitor them, looking for any deviation from their predicted trajectory that could put them on a collision course with Earth.
The incoming space rock was first discovered on Jan. 12, 2008, by asteroid surveyors at the Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter observatory in Arizona and last zipped past Earth on March 1, 2015, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies . The asteroid swings by our planet roughly every seven years, with the next close flyby predicted to come on May 25, 2029.
Thursday's asteroid might not even be the biggest space rock to hurtle past us in the coming weeks. That title will likely go to 467460 , which has an estimated diameter between 1,247 and 2,822 feet and will be traveling at roughly 25,300 mph when it passes us on May 9, 2022. If astronomers ever do spy an asteroid flying straight at Earth, space agencies around the world are already working on ways to possibly deflect the object. On Nov. 24, 2021, NASA launched a spacecraft as a part of its
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