Asteroid 2023 FP5 heading towards Earth; check size, speed and how big  a threat it is

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Asteroid 2023 FP5 is coming towards Earth and NASA has revealed a number of details including its size, speed and distance.

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NASA has revealed that a gigantic 120-foot asteroid is rapidly approaching Earth on April 09, 2023.

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The asteroid is almost the size of an Airplane (120 foot). It is moving at a rapid speed of 50809 kilometre per hour.

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The asteroid 2023 FP5 will make its closest approach to Earth at a distance of just 4.09 million kilometres.

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This asteroid will come very close to the planet, but is likely to pass by, albeit very closely, according to NASA. 

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NASA uses various telescopes and observatories like NEOWISE to track and study asteroids.

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NASA has warned that the asteroid will come close, but a collision is not on the cards.

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 NASA computes asteroid orbits by finding the elliptical path about the sun that best fits the available observations of the object.

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NASA keeps tracking their movements on a constant basis - each asteroid that nears Earth is tracked separately.

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It is believed that a collision of a huge asteroid with Earth is the reason behind the extinction of the dinosaurs.

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NASA have experimented with various ways to deal with asteroids that threaten to actually crash on Earth. One is called DART-Double Asteroid Redirection Test.