The astronomer estimated the danger of an almost kilometer-long asteroid flying past the Earth

He said this in an interview with RIA Novosti.

According to the astronomer, the asteroid will fly by on February 16 at 03:45 Moscow time at a distance of 4.5 million km from Earth.

"Preliminarily, in the next four to five years, the asteroid is not dangerous for the planet, this is evidenced by the period of the Earth's revolution and the inclination of the asteroid," Ivanov said.

Earlier, Russian astronomer, teacher at the Moscow Palace of Pioneers Denis Denisenko, in an interview with RT, spoke about the asteroid 2023 BU with a diameter of about 5-6 m, which flew several thousand kilometers from Earth on January 26.