An asteroid estimated to be 1.2 miles wide will fly by Earth next week, but it's not expected to collide with our planet. When viewed in a Doppler radar image, it looks like it's wearing a 'face mask.'
An asteroid estimated to be 1.2 miles wide will fly by Earth next week, but it's not expected to collide with our planet.
And if an asteroid could be aware of such things, it appears to be wearing a face mask in deference to the pandemic, according to new images from Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The asteroid is called 52768 , and it was first spotted in 1998. On April 29, it will pass within 3,908,791 miles of Earth, moving at 19,461 miles per hour. That's still 16 times farther than the distance between Earth and the moon.
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