“On the evening of Tuesday, November 26, an asteroid called 2006 WB will pass in space near the planet Earth.”, — write: www.ukrinform.ua
On the evening of Tuesday, November 26, an asteroid called 2006 WB will pass in space near the planet Earth.
This was reported by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Ukrinform reports.
According to NASA, the length of the celestial object is 97.8 meters.
The distance from it to our planet will be 891,242 km.
If an asteroid approaches Earth at a distance closer than 7.5 million km, and its size exceeds 150 m, then NASA considers it a “potentially dangerous object”.
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