An asteroid discovered by NASA has passed near Earth

asteroid aka 2023 epreviously disclosed NASA Last Monday (13) passed close to Earth on Friday (17). The object was seen by a telescope monitoring station in Sutherland in South Africa. a 2023 e Its size has been compared to the meteor that struck Russia in 2013 and damaged the city of Chelyabinsk.

According to the Forbes The asteroid is inAsteroid Watch dashboardby NASA, which hosts a list of asteroids that are expected to come within 4.6 million miles / 7.5 million km from Earth. That is about 20 times the distance to the moon. Despite the relatively large distance, the asteroid has the potential to be dangerous.

In 2023, EY will pass 149,000 miles / 240,000 km from Earth. It was observed by the 17-inch Automated Telescope in Secano, central Italy, in the early hours of Friday.

_{Mapping 2023 EY. Playback / YouTube / Virtual Telescope Project}

Asteroids are space rocks that orbit the sun, just like other planets. 2023 EY is classified as an asteroid. ApolloAs its orbit is larger than Earth’s and presents the possibility of colliding with our planet, in the same way that happened in 2013 in Russia.

An asteroid hit Earth recently, and it can be seen in the UK and France. Just one meter away 2667 Saudi riyalsAs it was called by astronomers who recognized it before it exploded, it can be seen in the sky as a bright star appears.

Although it is common for small asteroids to pass through Earth, their detections and identifications are extremely rare. the astronomer who determined it 2667 Saudi riyalsHey Krisztian Sarneczky across the Konkoli Observatory, in Hungary, he said that the asteroid appears to be an ordinary object in near-Earth space. But the telescope identified it and the results showed that there would be a 100% chance of a collision. Indeed, the collision occurred.

Featured image: a near-Earth asteroid. Play / Forbes.