NASA announced this week that five asteroids, with sizes ranging from 10.5 to 183 meters in diameter, would pass close to Earth. This will occur between June 24-27. Furthermore, they pointed out that one of them is considered “potentially dangerous”.
Experts explained that the 2020 MK asteroid, between 80 and 190 meters in diameter, will pass 457 thousand kilometers from Earth on Saturday, June 27.
Dangerous?
The asteroid is classified by NASA as a “potentially dangerous object”, since it meets the two requirements that this label requires: passing at the same or less distance of 7.5 million kilometers from Earth and having a size greater than 150 meters.
However, specialists sent a reassuring message clarifying that it is practically impossible for the object to hit our planet.
Five asteroids
According to NASA, the other four objects, one, the 2020MP1, spent Wednesday night 457 thousand kilometers from Earth, just a little more than the distance between our planet and the Moon). It was between 17 and 39 meters in size.
Two others, the 2017 FW128 (between 8.4 and 19 meters) and the 2020MA (between 23 and 52 meters), passed close to Earth this Thursday, at 2,630,000 kilometers and 2,550,000 kilometers, respectively.
The last of the five asteroids, the 2020MF21, measures between 7.8 and 17 meters and will approach 498 thousand kilometers our planet also on June 27, hours after 2020MK, at 15:11 (Guatemala time).
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