Largest Asteroid To Fly Past Earth In 2021 Potentially Hazardous Here S Why
The enormous space rock—known as 2001 FO32—is one of numerous “near-Earth objects,” or NEOs, that orbit the sun in our cosmic neighborhood. This term refers to objects with trajectories that can take them within 30 million miles of Earth’s own orbital path around the sun. According to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) around 25,000 NEOs have been identified to date. The vast majority are asteroids and a handful are comets....