Alert! A 100-foot asteroid, two others, heading towards Earth, reveals NASA
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NASA has warned about the three asteroids zooming towards Earth at great pace.
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Today, Earth will witness three asteroids, one a mammoth 110-foot, making a very close approach towards the planet.
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Asteroid 2023 HV is a 46-foot space rock approximately the size of a house.
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This asteroid will come as close as 0.856 million miles to Earth today at the speed of 15649 km per hour, as per NASA.
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Next asteroid is 2018 VS6 as per NASA's information it is a 45-foot asteroid close to the size of a house.
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Asteroid 2018 VS6 is moving at a speed of 41744 kilometers per hour and will be 1.24 million miles away from the planet.
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The largest among the three asteroids is Asteroid 2023 HY3. It is 100-foot in size.
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This asteroid is expected to come as close as 3.98 million miles to Earth.
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Asteroid 2023 HY3 is travelling at a speed of 23596 km per hour.
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To make sure there is enough warning time, NASA keeps an eye on asteroids using its various telescopes and observatories like NEOWISE.
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It also uses a variety of ground-based telescopes like Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) located in the Antofagasta Region of Atacama Desert in Chile.
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