The 1,600-foot-long space rock will come within three million miles of Earth.
tracks the orbital paths of tens of thousands of asteroids, comets, and other interplanetary rejectamenta. According to CNEOS, no asteroid larger than 460 feet across has a significant chance of hitting Earth in the next 100 years.in September was conducted to test humankind’s ability to change an asteroid’s trajectory. The mission was conducted with the dreadful scenario in mind: a large asteroid barrelling towards Earth, which would cause catastrophic damage if it collided with our world.
2020 DB5 is not the only asteroid passing by this week. The house-size 2023 LZ will pass within 200,000 miles of Earth today, and the plane-size 2023 LW will pass within 1.44 million miles of our planet on June 18,
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