Huge asteroid approaching Earth | World

Asteroid 2024 ON will pass close to Earth Tuesday evening US time.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said this. Home The asteroid is 290 metres in diameter, equivalent to a full-size football field, and will pass at a distance of about one million kilometres from Earth.

In its current orbit, 2024 ON poses no danger to Earth. However, a slight deviation could have dire consequences, the British newspaper wrote. Independent.

“Monitoring continues”

Asteroids larger than 140 meters (450 feet) in diameter and whose orbits come within 7.5 million kilometers of Earth's orbit around the sun are defined as “potentially hazardous asteroids,” NASA wrote on its website. That's something that fits into 2024 ON.

CNEOS continuously monitors all known near-Earth objects to assess which ones are potentially Collision hazards which they may form NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory writes on its website: Home.

The asteroid's size makes it 99 percent larger than other similar objects that pass Earth in space. Despite its size, 2024 ON isn't close enough to see without a telescope.

The object was first discovered by NASA's Near Earth Observation (NEO) program, which uses various observatories around the world. On September 9, the asteroid was supposed to have traveled at a speed of about 40,000 km/h, The Independent wrote.

according to NASA data The space rock last passed by Earth in 2013, and it is expected to come close again in 2035.