'Potentially hazardous' asteroid to approach Earth

An asteroid volition reportedly scope Earth's orbit this weekend.

According to The Hill, the asteroid, 4660 Nereus, volition travel wrong 2.5 cardinal miles of Earth connected Dec. 11. That's astir 10-times the region betwixt Earth and the moon.

The asteroid is considered “potentially hazardous” due to the fact that of however adjacent it volition get to Earth— not due to the fact that it volition marque interaction with the planet.

NASA precocious launched its archetypal full-scale planetary defence test.

The extremity of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is to set the velocity and way of an asteroid by utilizing kinetic impactor technology. Scientists anticipation to larn whether they tin change an asteroid's trajectory successful lawsuit 1 is connected a collision people with Earth.

The asteroid DART volition beryllium targeting is not the aforesaid 1 that volition beryllium passing by Earth connected Dec. 11.