Discovered June 16th, large asteroid to pass between Earth and moon on Saturday
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Earth is surrounded by rocky bodies and bits of debris from when the solar system formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago.
According to Alan Fitzsimmons, a planetary scientist at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland, at its closest, 2024 MK will be visible from the southern hemisphere.
It’s passing by just nine days after NASA released a report on the results of an asteroid-threat simulation conducted in early April.
Asteroid Day, sanctioned by the United Nations, was started in 2014 by astrophysicist and former Queen musician Brian May along with Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart along with a few others.
But in 1994, the astronomical world was shocked to see the effects of several pieces of a comet slamming into Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system.
On February 15, a 20-metre wide rock impacted over entered Earth’s atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia, causing a massive air burst that blew out windows in the area, injuring roughly 1,000 people.
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