big asteroid massive size 70 foot coming today 19 june speed of 70000 km per hour nasa latest asteroid update

You must have heard about asteroids at some point or the other. These are rocks moving in space which are said to have come out of the explosion that occurred during the formation of the solar system. Their size can range from 50 feet to several kilometers. These days they are continuously passing close to the Earth. NASA is noticing more than one asteroid coming closer to the Earth every day. Today again an alert has been issued by the space agency for a rock as big as an airplane.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Tracks asteroids. When an asteroid starts moving towards a distance of less than 75 lakh kilometers from the Earth, NASA issues an alert for it. Even today an asteroid is coming closer in the direction of the Earth. Its name is 2016 LK49. As its name suggests, it was first seen in 2016. You will be surprised to know its speed.

Asteroid 2016 LK49 It has been said that it is moving towards the Earth at a speed of 69,876 kilometers per hour. That means its speed is about 70 thousand kilometers per hour. It is the size of a large airplane. When it passes close to the Earth, the distance between the two will be 6,660,000 kilometers, which will be the closest point.

According to NASA, more than 7 lakh 30 thousand asteroids have been discovered so far, out of which 16000 asteroids are present in and around the Earth. NASA also calls them near earth objects, that is, such celestial bodies, which are continuously hovering around the earth. Out of these 16 thousand asteroids, NASA has declared 1784 asteroids as potentially dangerous for the Earth. NASA is studying them. According to the space agency, they are made of the same material from which our entire solar system is made, hence studying them is considered an important discovery.