Warning! Asteroid to come very close to Earth on this day
Photo Credit: Pixabay May 3 can witness an asteroid coming very close to Earth, informed NASA.
Photo Credit: Pixabay NASA has warned about a 41-foot asteroid named Asteroid 2023 HV5 approaching Earth on May 3,2023.
Photo Credit: Pixabay The Asteroid 2023 HV5 is almost the size of a bus and is expected to come very close to our planet.
Photo Credit: Pixabay According to NASA's asteroid tracking data, the asteroid will come as close as 270,000 miles to Earth.
Photo Credit: Pixabay The distance of the asteroid 2023 HV5 is almost the average distance between Moon and Earth which is about 239,000 miles.
Photo Credit: Pixabay The asteroid is travelling at the speed of 32152 kmph as per NASA’s CNEOS data.
Photo Credit: Pixabay The Asteroid 2023 HV5 was recently discovered - on April 24,2023.
Photo Credit: Pixabay It comes from the Apollo group, which is named after the first asteroid discovered in this group, 1862 Apollo.
Photo Credit: NASA Sky.org informed that this asteroid makes one orbit around the Sun in 672 days.
Photo Credit: Pixabay The Asteroid 2023 HV5 is expected to make another close approach, but that will be on August 13, 2055.
Photo Credit: Pixabay NASA keeps an eye on such asteroids using Ground-based telescopes and NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft.
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