Two Huge Asteroids Heading For Earth Today; NASA says 1 is a large 97-foot asteroid

Two huge aster­oids (97 feet and 48 feet) are hurtling toward Earth at great speed. Will they affect the plan­et? You know what NASA said.

There are sev­er­al objects such as aster­oids, mete­ors and oth­ers in space that are des­ig­nat­ed by the space agency NASA as Near Earth Objects (NEOs) that can pose a major threat to plan­et Earth. If they col­lide with the plan­et, it can hit all liv­ing things bad­ly. To avoid such dan­ger­ous sit­u­a­tions, sci­en­tists and researchers observe the move­ments of these objects through var­i­ous tech­ni­cal mar­vels such as tele­scopes. Accord­ing to the lat­est infor­ma­tion from NASA, two giant aster­oids are rush­ing toward plan­et Earth today, Novem­ber 13, and one is a giant 97-foot asteroid.

The aster­oids called 2022 VE, a mas­sive 97-foot aster­oid, and 2022 VL1, a 48-foot aster­oid, are hurtling towards the plan­et at great speed. Aster­oid 2022VE’s clos­est approach to Earth will be just 2690000, while 2022 VL1’s clos­est approach to the plan­et will be a stag­ger­ing 282000, accord­ing to NASA’s Jet Propul­sion Lab­o­ra­to­ry (JPL). The 97-foot aster­oid is mov­ing at a hair-rais­ing speed of 32724 km/h (9.09 km/s) and the 48-foot aster­oid is mov­ing at a speed of 31320 km/h (8.7 km/s) .

Now the ques­tion aris­es, are these aster­oids dan­ger­ous for our plan­et and all liv­ing organ­isms on it? Well, these aster­oids pose no threat to plan­et Earth as they will not col­lide with it if they con­tin­ue their cur­rent tra­jec­to­ry. It is known that not every aster­oid com­ing towards Earth is dan­ger­ous for the liv­ing organ­isms that are on it. How­ev­er, if they change direc­tion for some rea­son like Earth­’s grav­i­ty or some­thing else, these aster­oids can pose prob­lems. How­ev­er, NASA keeps a con­stant eye on them to ensure such events are found and act­ed upon quickly.

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Want to know how NASA tracks aster­oids? Accord­ing to avail­able infor­ma­tion, sur­veys con­duct­ed by NASA-sup­port­ed ground-based tele­scopes — includ­ing Pans-STARRS1 in Maui, Hawaii, and the Catali­na Sky Sur­vey near Tuc­son, Ari­zona — have iden­ti­fied thou­sands of near-Earth objects. And a space-based tele­scope called NEOWISE has iden­ti­fied hun­dreds of oth­ers while scan­ning the sky at near-infrared light wave­lengths from its polar orbit around Earth. Many ground-based tele­scopes per­form fol­low-up obser­va­tions to fur­ther aid in orbit cal­cu­la­tions and to study the objects’ phys­i­cal properties.