Asteroid and Earth

Photo: News18

Largest, Potentially Hazardous Asteroid To Fly Past Earth On March 21

The NASA has revealed that the largest asteroid to fly past the Earth in 2021 will come closest (within a distance of 1.3 million miles) on March 21. Named '2001 FO32', the asteroid is a massive rock classified as a near-Earth object (NEO) orbiting the Sun in proximity to the Earth. The NASA has classified 2,100 NEOs as potentially dangerous. Hazardous NEOs orbit within 4.6-million-miles distance from the earth, having a diameter of over 460-… read-more

Sun, 07 Feb 2021 - 07:55 AM / by Richa Nigam

Tags: Earth, NASA, NEO, 2001 FO32, Asteroid