NASA: The largest asteroid approaching Earth today and moving at extraordinary speed

               The US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said that the largest asteroid, which is expected to reach the closest point to Earth this year, will pass at a tremendous speed at a safe distance on Sunday, according to the US CNN news network today. .


               Scientists estimate that the asteroid is between 1,300 and 2,230 feet wide.


               The asteroid, known as "2001 F032", will be at a distance of 1.25 million miles, five times more than the distance between the Earth and the moon, during its arrival to the nearest point of the Earth.


               The asteroid will move much faster than most asteroids that approached Earth, with a speed of 77,000 miles per hour.


               And the asteroid will reach the nearest point of the Earth at twelve o'clock and three minutes in the evening.


               And space scientists had reassured the inhabitants of the planet about the approaching of the largest asteroid this year on Sunday from the closest point to the Earth, and indicated that this does not pose any threat.


               "It (the asteroid) is stable, not on a precarious path," said Detlev Kochni, an asteroid expert at the European Space Agency, adding that the celestial body would be available for viewing by amateur astronomers with the appropriate equipment.


               "We know the orbital path of the asteroid / 2001FO32" around the sun with great accuracy, given that it was discovered 20 years ago and is being tracked, said Paul Chodas, director of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, run by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Since then.  


               ”NASA said that the asteroid will continue its journey, and will not approach Earth again until the year 2052.


               Scientists intend to take advantage of the asteroid's approach to Earth to study it more closely.

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