• Science A potentially dangerous asteroid will pass close to Earth this Tuesday

An asteroid about 50 meters in diameter, discovered on February 26,

is on a path with little risk of impacting Earth on February 14, 2046

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"We have been tracking

a new asteroid called 2023 DW

that has a very small probability of hitting Earth in 2046. Often when new objects are first discovered, several weeks of data are needed to reduce uncertainties and adequately predict their orbits. in the future," explains NASA on the Twitter account dedicated to asteroid tracking.

Its closest approach to Earth

is expected on February 14, 2046 at 1.8 million kilometers from Earth

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NASA orbit analysts will continue to monitor asteroid 2023 DW and update predictions as more data comes in.

The asteroid, discovered from the MAP San Pedro de Atacama Observatory, has an

estimated diameter of 49 meters

and is currently 0.12 astronomical units from Earth, circulating at a relative speed of 24.63 kilometers per second with respect to the Sun.

Its orbital period is 271 days.

ESA's Near-Earth Object Coordination Center forecasts

a direct hit probability of 1 in 625

as of March 8 , although these probabilities are recalculated daily.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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