The Dhaka Times Desk A large asteroid passed by the Earth yesterday afternoon. Named 1998 Q2, the asteroid was identified in 1998 by astronomers at MIT's Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research in New Mexico, USA.
According to scientists, it is 1.7 miles wide in size. This asteroid is supposed to pass 15 times the distance of the Moon from the Earth. Astronomers said that this distance is safe and there is nothing to worry about. NASA has also confirmed this. Scientists have already informed that the asteroid passing through a distance of 3.6 million miles cannot be seen with the naked eye without a powerful telescope. In the next 200 years, this asteroid will not come so close to the earth.
The asteroid's speed in space at this time is 10.58 kilometers per second or 23,666 miles per hour, which is 15 times faster than a rifle bullet. If the asteroid hit the Earth, it would be catastrophic. Of course, yesterday everything was normal in the world, no such problem was seen. News from Genius Online.
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