When was the last time an asteroid hit Earth? 🌍
The asteroid scheduled to zoom past Earth was only discovered in 2007 and is about 850 feet in diameter. Dubbed 2007 FF1, the asteroid travels at speeds of up to 11 miles per second as it orbits around the sun. It is, therefore, one of 15,000 objects called Apollo-class asteroids.According to the online database, SpaceReference, 2007 FF1 will make its closest approach to Earth in our lifetimes this April Fool's Day as it flies past our home planet at a distance of 4.6 million miles.
As the asteroid is larger than 140 meters and breaches the 4.6 million mark set out by astronomers, it is classified as"potentially hazardous." Following SpaceReferences prediction, the asteroid is expected to make its future fly-bys much farther away from this distance, going as far as 18 million miles.
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