NASA Alert! Asteroid heading towards Earth at great pace

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A massive Asteroid is racing towards Earth and it is set to come mighty close, reveals NASA. The Asteroid that is racing towards a close encounter with Earth is 290-foot wide.

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 NASA has warned about the gigantic Asteroid 2023 HP1 that will come worryingly close to Earth on May 7.

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 It NASA says these are near-Earth asteroids and it refers to celestial objects that circle the Sun and come close to the Earth's orbit.

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The asteroid is so big that if it collides with our planet, it could cause huge damage.

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 NASA's CNEOS data has revealed that the asteroid 2023 HP1 will come as near as 6.13 million kilometers to Earth.

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While it has also revealed that the asteroid is currently moving  towards earth at a velocity of 41868  kilometers per hour.

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 The Asteroid 2023 HP1‘s size is almost the size of a building.

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Although the asteroid will come very close to our planet it is likely to pass by.

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NASA keeps watch on asteroids and other such objects through telescopes and observatories like NEOWISE.

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NASA has a number of such observatories. Some are in space and others are ground-based.