Shockingly, an asteroid has actually hit Earth, NASA reveals. Now, NASA has warned of a 140-foot-wide asteroid heading this way.
Shockingly, just hours before an asteroid hit Earth, NASA realized that it was in the process of colliding with Earth and was bound to collide. The asteroid strike on November 19 caused the sky south of Ontario, Canada, to glow brightly as people looked on in amazement. The asteroid that hit Earth was named 2022 WJ1. Thankfully, it didn’t harm anyone, but NASA scientists announced that it “crossed the skies high in Earth’s atmosphere, breaking up and potentially scattering small meteorites across the coast.” south of Lake Ontario.” Surprising facts? The asteroid was discovered just three and a half hours before impact. The reason for the lucky ending is that the asteroid is about 1 meter (3 feet) wide. Now, a 140-foot asteroid is heading towards Earth, NASA revealed.
NASA is tasked with tracking all near-Earth objects such as asteroids and comets that could survive passing through Earth’s atmosphere and pose a threat to Earth. NASA’s JPL track foretells potentially hazardous asteroids to come. The next scary asteroid will arrive tomorrow and is moving at a staggering 39204 kilometers per hour. The asteroid, named 2022 WO4, is 150 feet in diameter. NASA’s Asteroid Tracking Dashboard data shows the asteroid will come as close as 2.61 million miles to Erath. So is it dangerous for the Earth?
NASA determines if any asteroid is a potentially hazardous asteroid on the basis of its closest approach, which would be within 4.6 million miles. or 7.5 million km above Earth and about 150 meters larger in size. Therefore, Asteroid 2022 WO4 is a potential threat to Earth. That’s why NASA is actively monitoring this upcoming asteroid. The chances of this asteroid passing by are very high, and the chances of it deviating to any place closer to Earth, like the one that crashed a few days ago, is negligible at the moment.
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Did you know, like the recent asteroid tracked just before hitting Earth, the first such asteroid was discovered in 2008? It was the asteroid 2008 TC3 that entered the atmosphere in Sudan and broke up into small pieces. It’s a 13-foot-wide or 4-meter-wide asteroid scattered across the Nubian Desert into hundreds of small meteorites.
