ISLAMABAD – A 111-foot huge asteroid is zooming towards Earth at agut-wrenching speed of 22,000 miles per hour and will be 50 times closer toEarth than the closest neighbouring planet Mercury, according to the spaceagency’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS)
The asteroid will be making its close approach at around 6:53 pm EDT onMonday, which means at 4:23 am on Tuesday morning as per Indian StandardTime. The asteroid is poised to skim past our planet on its closestapproach for 115 years.
The asteroid, 2019 TA7, has been classified by CNEOS as an Aten asteroid.
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Like other Aten asteroids, 2019 TA7 orbits around the Sun. Occasionally,its orbit intersects with that of Earth as it reaches its farthest pointfrom the giant star.
