Hold off on that 2046 Valentine's date, asteroid might hit Earth
Astronomers have another near-Earth object on their ones-to-watch lists: a newly discovered 50-metre-wide asteroid that could hit Earth on Valentine's Day ... in 2046.was first observed on February 26 making its way toward our home world on its orbit around the Sun. Scientists have been studying the space rock over some weeks to get a better idea of its physical and orbital properties.
What the eggheads have been able to determine is that the asteroid is right now whizzing along at 24.6 kilometres per second , and completes an orbit around the Sun every 271 days, and is potentially hazardous - within a given range. "We've been tracking a new asteroid named 2023 DW that has a very small chance of impacting Earth in 2046," NASAon its official Asteroid Watch account on Twitter."Often when new objects are first discovered, it takes several weeks of data to reduce the uncertainties and adequately predict their orbits years into the future."
The latest predictions from NASA estimate a collision risk of 1-in-600. Meanwhile, ESA has placed 2023 DW at the top of its
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