Airplane-sized asteroid set to buzz Earth at close quarters, NASA data shows

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Various NASA telescopes are tracking this asteroid and the data reveals that it will pass very close to the Earth today.

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Asteroids pose a significant danger to Earth as is clear from past incidents including the one that killed off the dinosaurs or the more recent Chelyabinsk event. 

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While most asteroids that enter Earth's atmosphere burn up and disintegrate before they can reach the surface, some larger asteroids can cause significant damage. 

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This is why NASA and other space agencies have deployed various telescopes and spacecrafts in order to keep a constant watch on these asteroids.

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Through the JPL watch board, NASA provides details of potentially hazardous asteroids that are set to approach Earth.

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It has revealed that today there will be four space rocks that will come very close to the Earth today. 

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One of these scary monster rocks, dubbed Asteroid 2023 KB2, is rushing at a fiery speed of 26337 kmph, NASA's CNEOS data indicated. 

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The asteroid is as big as 70-foot in size and will come as close as 2.83 million miles to Earth today, May 26.

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This asteroid is heading for Earth at a blistering speed of 63186 kilometers per hour. It will miss Earth at a close distance of 4.7 million kilometers.

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NASA and other space agencies keep a close watch on these near-Earth objects simply because of their potential for destruction.  

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NASA's NEOWISE space-based telescope helps in finding, tracking, and characterizing NEOs, and identifying those that may pose a hazard to Earth.