NASA marks Valentine's Day 2046 as the potential day of impact.
A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a"small chance" of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a potential impact on Valentine's Day in 2046, according to NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office.
People are also reading… Though the 2023 DW tops the list, its ranking of 1 means only that"the chance of collision is extremely unlikely with no cause for public attention or public concern," according to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, while a 0 ranking means the"likelihood of a collision is zero, or is so low as to be effectively zero."
"Often when new objects are first discovered," NASA Asteroid Watch noted Tuesday on Twitter,"it takes several weeks of data to reduce the uncertainties and adequately predict their orbits years into the future." "However, such early predictions can often be ruled out as we incorporate more observations and reduce the uncertainties in the object's orbit," it reads."Most often, the threat associated with a specific object will decrease as additional observations become available."
The asteroid measures about 160 feet in diameter, according to NASA data. As 2023 DW orbits the sun, it has 10 predicted close approaches to Earth, with the nearest landing on February 14, 2046, and nine others between 2047 and 2054. The closest the asteroid is expected to travel to Earth is about 1.1 million miles , NASA's Eyes on Asteroids website notes.It's traveling about 15.
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