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A potentially dangerous asteroid flies to Earth

An asteroid with a diameter of approximately half a kilometer is approaching Earth and already on the night of April 20 it will reach the minimum possible distance from the planet. NASA evaluated the danger of the space body and named its size.

Yes, a celestial giant named JO25 up to 500 meters wide will be about 1.8 million km from Earth. This distance is approximately five distances from the moon from our planet.

The U.S. Space Agency noted that the focus of an asteroid of this size is the closest in the past 400 years. Although smaller asteroids regularly fly at a shorter distance from Earth.

It is worth noting that, according to NASA criteria, potentially dangerous asteroids are considered to be over 140 meters in size and less than 7.5 million kilometers from the planet. Although the asteroid JO25 does not pose a real threat to the planet, it is on the list of potentially deadly cosmic bodies on Earth.

Experts say that an asteroid collision of this size with the planet can destroy the entire continent.

The asteroid will fly at a tremendous speed: 33 kilometers per second (approximately 120 thousand kilometers per hour).

Previously, we wrote that such a large asteroid flies to Earth that it can be seen. A small space body will approach in late April. This asteroid will fly 6.2 million km from Earth.