The huge space rock is advancing toward Earth, and it might arrive at Earth today. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has given an admonition that a space rock, the size of a plane, will arrive at today’s nearest approach, August 28. The space rock named NEO 2024 QP3 will pass by Earth on August 29, 3:25 am IST. It is a 100-foot wide space rock that most would consider normal to come as close as 5.51 million kilometres to the Earth.
NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) affirmed that the space rock has a speed of 7.93 km per second. As indicated by the US space organization’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, the space rock, because of its closeness, has been assigned as a “possibly unsafe item.” This comes after space rock NEO 2024 QQ4 zoomed past Earth on Saturday. It was 5.93 million kilometres from our planet when it made its closest approach. According to CNEOS, the goliath space rock moved at a speed of 7.23 km per second.
Space rocks are rough parts left over from the development of the nearby planet group around 4.6 quite a while back. The space rock is named a close Earth object when its separation from our planet is under 1.3 times the separation from Earth to the Sun (the Earth-Sun distance is around 93 million miles), as indicated by the NASA Joint Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
To shield Earth from these rough parts, NASA sends its DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) space apparatus. The space organisation dispatches a space apparatus directly into a space rock’s centre to divert it from its unique way. The information from the accident can assist researchers with making smaller than expected influences in a lab and constructing refined PC models given those outcomes.
