Gigantic asteroid to fly past Earth Monday

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Gigantic asteroid to fly past Earth Monday

The space rock, called 2019 VF1, was discovered this year and will pass Earth at about 04:09 am GMT on Monday

Sunday November 24, 2019 7:14 PM, ummid.com News Network

Washington: A huge and gigantic asteroid is on course to skirt by Earth. The asteroid, to return seven years later, is traveling more than 60 times faster than a Boeing jet.

The space rock, called 2019 VF1, was discovered this year and will pass Earth at about 04:09 am GMT on Monday November 25, 2019.

The asteroid is 492 feet in diameter and travels more than 60 times faster than a Boeing 747 jet.

NASA has officially registered it as a “near-Earth object” bound to make a “close approach” to our planet. But not too close, the space agency reassured.

An asteroid is made of rock or metal, while a comet is made of ice and gas. They become meteors when they hit our planet and the objects which fall to Earth without burning up are called meteorites.

The asteroid is set to swoosh by at a distance that is around 13 times farther from Earth than the Moon. It will return and come close to Earth again on November 2026.

Asteroids regularly make close approaches to Earth, and Nasa creates alerts for each one of these objects.

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