The potentially hazardous asteroid 2023 FM is larger than a 40-story building and will zoom within 7.5 lunar distances from Earth on Thursday, April 6, according to NASA.
. During its closest approach on Thursday afternoon, the asteroid will fly within roughly 1.8 million miles of our planet, far beyond the orbit of theThe space rock's formidable size, coupled with its uncomfortably close trajectory, earns it the title of a, meaning a space rock that could measure larger than 460 feet in diameter and that could come within 4.
65 million miles of Earth, according to NASA's near-Earth-object classification system.NASA tracks thousands of PHAs, as even a slight, unexpected tweak to an asteroid's orbit could send it on a deadly crash course with Earth. Astronomers are constantly monitoring and recalculating these orbits — and thankfully, no collisions with PHAs are likely for at least the next 100 years.
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