A large asteroid zipped past Earth last week, in a relatively rare event that astronomers described as one 'very close encounter' with our planet.
March 28, 2023 / 11:34 AM zipped past Earth last week, in a relatively rare event that astronomers described as one"very close encounter" with our planet.
The video was created by the Virtual Telescope Project, an initiative from the Italian astrophysicist and astronomer Gianluca Masi and the Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory that operates in Ceccano near the central coast of western Italy. The project uses robotic telescopes to observe space objects and cosmic events, which are then shared or live-streamed online.
Astronomers at the observatory of La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands originally discovered the asteroid in February and announced the finding in March. Although for a time the asteroid appeared on the Sentry risk table, which keeps a running list of space objects that could potentially impact Earth, officials removed 2023 DZ2 from that list as it neared the planet.
was about 164 feet in diameter. That size is similar to the length of an Olympic-sized swimming pool or a commercial airplane. Although scientists determined ahead of time that the rock did not pose any threat to Earth, officials still deemed the flyby notable because it passed the planet at quite a close range — slightly less than half the average distance between the Earth and moon's respective orbits, which is about 108,000 miles from the ground.
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