RM4 2022, an asteroid with an estimated diameter of more than 2,400 feet, is expected to swing by Earth on Nov. 1, speeding at around 52,000 miles per hour.
Such asteroids have an orbit that is larger than Earth’s orbit around the sun and their path crosses Earth’s path.
2002 RM4 orbits the Sun every 1,397 days and its path does occasionally cross Earth’s orbital path around the Sun. This imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope from Oct. 8, 2022, shows the debris blasted from the surface of Dimorphos 285 hours after the asteroid was intentionally impacted by NASA’s DART spacecraft on Sept. 26.from an apocalyptic asteroid collision for at least the next century.
In addition, the agency's Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft recently redirected the non-hazardous asteroid Dimorphos by sending it off course.Get a daily look at what’s developing in science and technology throughout the world.