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Today at around 7.30 pm, a large asteroid greater than 330 meters will pass near the Earth. This asteroid, which is higher than the Eiffel Tower, has been named 4660 Nereus (4660 Nereus). The special thing is that this asteroid has already passed close to the Earth on 22 March 2011 and next time it can pass close to the Earth on 2 March 2031.
4660 Nereus asteroid has been classified as a potentially dangerous object. Such an asteroid is kept in this category, which passes within 74.8 lakh kilometers from the Earth’s orbit and is larger than 140 meters.
Let’s know what is this asteroid? How close will it pass through the earth? Is there any danger from this asteroid?
What is an Asteroid?
Asteroids are rocky objects moving around the Sun that are too small to be called planets. They are also known as planetoids or minor planets. Till now millions of asteroids have been detected, whose sizes range from hundreds of kilometers to several meters. The US space agency NASA has so far identified more than one million asteroids.
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