NASA, Earth and Asteroid
NASA Alert! Football stadium-sized asteroid racing towards Earth today at 52117 kmph, should you be worried?
NASA has raised a red alert for asteroid 2023 WK3, a massive space rock the size of a football stadium. Measuring 850 feet in diameter, it is travelling at an astonishing speed of 52,117 km/h. The asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth on November 18, 2024, at 7:11 pm IST, passing at a distance of around 6.16 million kilometres.
The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.
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