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On April 29, an asteroid 1.7 kilometers long and 4.1 kilometers wide will pass 6.29 million kilometers from Earth at more than 31,000 kilometers per hour. When NASA first spotted 52768 (1998 OR2) in 1998, it called it a "potentially dangerous object" because it is "large enough to cause global effects if it impacts the Earth."
Asteroid 52768 (1998 OR2) periodically passes near Earth's orbit, although not "dangerously close," NASA warned two decades ago. The last time we had it close was in 2011 and it is not expected to happen again until 2031, according to the database of the California Institute of Technology , which tracks the sightings.
Already on February 18, the Center for Near Earth Studies of NASA had to go out to deny some alarmist information that pointed to a possible impact of a large asteroid (greater than expected in April) against Earth : "It will pass safely at a distance of 5.77 million kilometers from Earth, about 15 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon."
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