The American Space Agency (NASA) has detected an asteroid called "PQ (1997)" which is rapidly orbiting around the sun, approaching a path that could make it very close to the Earth. Its amazing speed is 26,000 thousand miles per hour. Its rock width ranges between 2,191 feet and 0.86. Miles (668 m and 1.4 km).  

This asteroid will become closer to Earth tomorrow night (Thursday, May 21st), at about 10:45 pm GMT, and the asteroid will fly from more than 3.8 million miles (6.15 million km) from Earth, 16 times the distance to the moon.

"When these asteroids revolve around the sun, these objects can sometimes approach the Earth," NASA says. "We have to note that an astronomical passage can be very far by human scales: millions or even tens of millions of kilometers."

These large space rocks were first detected in the Solar System in 1997 and last seen on February 15, 2020. Although the asteroid does not pose any danger to Earth today or in the future, asteroids of this size may be disastrous.


NASA tracks dozens of objects approaching Earth every month, but it rarely raises fears. However, this asteroid, which will pass tomorrow near Earth, is the largest spacecraft to be observed between now and next July, and reminds scientists of the potential dangers lurking in far space.

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