Asteroid speeding towards close encounter with Earth today, says NASA  

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The asteroid is travelling at 72871 kmph, NASA said. 

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NASA has warned about the bus-sized Asteroid 2023 JR1. 

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Asteroid 2023 JR1 is a member of the Apollo group of asteroids.  

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NASA discovered this asteroid as recently as on May 12, 2023.

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The asteroid measures around 39-feet in width.

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The asteroid is traveling at a remarkable speed of 72871 kmph, says NASA's CNEOS.

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This asteroid completes one orbit around the Sun in approximately 1322 days, said the-sky.org.  

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The asteroid reaches its farthest point from the Sun at a distance of 606 million kilometers and comes closest to it at a minimum distance of 99 million kilometers.

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The asteroid will come extremely close to Earth. It will get as near as just 242,000 miles.  

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Notably, the average distance between Earth and the Moon is approximately 239,000 miles.