Although the distance of 67.90 lakh kilometers is very long, it is very less in comparison to the vastness of space. The US space agency NASA considers all those asteroids that pass close to the Earth at a distance of 8 million kilometers or less as potentially dangerous for the Earth.
This asteroid has been detected by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. However, scientists say that there will be no harm to the Earth due to the asteroid. But scientists will monitor this rocky disaster till the last moment. If an asteroid changes its direction and collides with the Earth, it can cause massive damage.
There has been an incident in the past when a species on Earth got destroyed due to an asteroid. Scientists have been believing that dinosaurs were wiped out from our earth due to an asteroid collision about 66 million years ago. Last year, an asteroid burnt up in the sky over Germany after entering the Earth’s atmosphere.
what are asteroids
Asteroids are also called minor planets. These also revolve around the Sun. According to NASA, our solar system began forming about 4.6 billion years ago. The rocks that remained during that time are asteroids. Scientists have so far discovered more than 11 lakh asteroids.
