“We are monitoring a new asteroid called 2023 DW, there is a very small risk of a collision with the Earth in 2046,” RIA Novosti quotes a message from the department on Twitter.
It is noted that the diameter of the asteroid is approximately 50 m.
The probability of a celestial body falling to Earth is estimated at 1 in 607.
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.