The American space agency’s asteroid tracking system earlier revealed that a giant space rock was rushing toward earth at 34 kilometres per second to closely pass by our planet at the end of March.
NASA tried to calm sky watchers over a “potentially hazardous” 2001 FO32 asteroid that is set to pass close to the Earth on 21 March.
The rock, measuring up to 1.7 kilometres in diameter, will not hit our planet, the agency has assured the world through Twitter. The reason is simple – the space object is travelling too far from the Earth to cause any harm to our home.
1.3 million miles equals around 2 million kilometres – or 0.01348 astronomical units. The moon rotates around our planet at a distance of about 238,856 miles.
The space agency’s message triggered a wave of comments from the internet crowd who joked that a post designed to calm people has had the opposite effect.
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