Arianna Johnson is a reporter on the Forbes news desk who covers explainers and trends, with a frequent focus on health and science. She joined Forbes in 2022 and works in Texas. Johnson has covered prominent weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, the health effects of the artificial sweetener aspartame and the impacts of the Covid vaccines.
A football stadium-size asteroid will zoom by Earth on Friday morning, and because of its size and how close to the planet it’s coming, NASA scientists are monitoring it for any potential danger.An 880-foot asteroid is expected to pass by Earth on Friday, coming within 4 million miles of the planet—about 17 times further than the moon—
The stadium-size asteroid is dubbed 2011 AM24, which orbits the Earth every 467 days but typically does not pass this close; it will make its nextNASA labels objects larger than 492 feet that come within 4.6 million miles of Earth “potentially hazardous objects,” so scientists monitor their potential danger even though they don’t expect 2011 AM24 to pose a threat.We’re launching text message alerts so you'll always know the biggest stories shaping the day’s headlines.
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