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Mile-long asteroid to make close approach to Earth on April 29, NASA says
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An asteroid is set to make a close-approach to Earth on April 29. (Credit: NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Facebook) A mile-long asteroid is set to pass by Earth on April 29, but no need to worry, says NASA.
The asteroid “will not even come close” to hitting the planet, the space agency said. “Asteroid 1998 OR2 poses no threat to our planet, but we can still learn a lot by studying it,” the space agency said in a Facebook post.
Near-earth objects are defined as objects that could “pass by our planet within 30 million miles, while NASA pays closer watch to objects that could pass within 5 million miles of Earth, like this asteroid, to study them and predict their trajectory into the future, the organization said in a
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