NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has revealed that the year 2021 will begin with the passing of four Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), covering a massive 220-meter distance. NASA said the 2003 AF23 asteroid with a diameter of 180 meters to 390 meters, almost as wide as the Golden Gate Bridge, will pass Earth on Jan. 3 at 6.3 million kilometers; he also said that three smaller cosmic debris will come to Earth on January 2 and January 3.
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As per NASA, Object Near Earth 2019 YB4 will pass over our planet on January 2. The American space agency estimated that the diameter of the object was somewhere between 12 meters to 26 meters. The 2019 YB4 will pass at a safe speed of 6.4 million kilometers. On January 3, 2020 YA1 and 2020 YP4 will also pass through Earth at a distance of 1.5 million kilometers and 2.1 million kilometers respectively. The NEOs are thought to be 12-27 meters in size and 17-37 meters respectively.
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Asteroid cooling size passed by Earth in November
In November, a cooling-sized asteroid called the 2018 VP1 passed by Earth at a speed of more than 25,000 miles per hour. The asteroid, which was about 7 feet in diameter in the Earth’s atmosphere, exploded creating a molten field, where the rock breaks up into fragments and fragments are broken all over the area above it. e. The number before the name of the asteroids marks the year in which they were discovered, for example, 2018 VP1 was marked in 2018 by the scientists.
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