LAUREN FRAYER, HOST:
The heavens shall be busy tonight and tomorrow. NASA is anticipating a number of interplanetary guests to Earth’s outer house neighborhood. The Middle for Close to-Earth Object Research is maintaining a detailed eye on 5 asteroids heading our manner. So we should always in all probability get to know them a bit bit, yeah?
The largest one is Asteroid 2020 WG. It is practically the scale of a skyscraper. It’s going to in all probability make its closest method at round 2 million miles away. Asteroid 2024 UQ1, nevertheless, is smaller however maybe extra daring. It is in regards to the measurement of a bus and will come inside about 148,000 miles of earth, which is so much nearer than our nearest house neighbor, the moon. Nevertheless it’s nonetheless not precisely essentially the most handy place for a bus cease. And simply to be clear, all of those asteroids are anticipated to move safely by the Earth and supply scientists with a possibility to check them as they fly by. And now, as for whether or not we are going to get to see them, in all probability not until you might have a extremely massive telescope and a darkish sky.
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