‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid to Pass Near Earth on Tuesday: NASA

2021 KT1, a “potentially hazardous” asteroid is passing close to the Earth on Tuesday (June 1), NASA has warned. The asteroid will make a detailed strategy to the Earth at round 10:24am EDT (7:54pm IST). The gigantic rock would fly previous our planet with a distance of round 4.5 million miles. Some different asteroids are additionally anticipated to zip previous the Earth later this week. However, these could be considerably smaller than the 2021 KT1.

NASA has mentioned on its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) web site that the 2021 KT1 asteroid might be round 186 metres in measurement. This is twice as massive because the Statue of Liberty, which is 93 metres in peak.

Asteroid 2021 KT1 is fly passing the Earth
Photo Credit: NASA

The asteroid shouldn’t be possible to hit the Earth because it could be 4.5 million miles away on the closest level. However, NASA considers any asteroid probably hazardous when it comes inside 4.6 million miles of the Earth and is bigger than 150 metres.

There are not any references to verify whether or not or not the asteroid would have an effect on the Earth. Nonetheless, NASA says that individuals shouldn’t be overly involved a few Near-Earth Object (NEO) comparable to an asteroid impacting the Earth. “The threat to any one person from auto accidents, disease, other natural disasters and a variety of other problems is much higher than the threat from NEOs,” the house company famous on its Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) web site.

Scientists, nonetheless, imagine that probabilities of the Earth being impacted by NEOs over lengthy intervals of time are “not negligible” and thus NASA and different house businesses around the globe actively monitor asteroid and comet moments.

In addition to the 2021 KT1, some smaller asteroids are passing close to the Earth within the coming days. Those asteroids are anticipated to be of up to 21 metres in measurement.