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29 kwi 2020 · On April 29, 2020, around its closest approach to Earth, asteroid (52768) 1998 OR2 will pass close to galaxy NGC 3463 and star HIP 53416.
28 kwi 2020 · On April 29, it will pass within 3,908,791 miles of Earth, moving at 19,461 miles per hour. That’s still 16 times farther than the distance between Earth and the moon.
24 kwi 2020 · The Arecibo Observatory captured this radar image of the big asteroid 1998 OR2 on April 18, 2020. 1998 OR2 will fly by Earth at a distance of 3.9 million miles (6.3 million kilometers) on...
It was discovered on 24 July 1998, by astronomers of the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program at the Haleakala Observatory, Hawaii, it passed very near to earth on 29 April 2020 at around 4:15am. [3] It is one of the brightest and therefore largest potentially hazardous asteroids known to exist. [7]
Live* tracker. Very large asteroid 1998OR2 is on a close approach trajectory for April 29th 2020. Asteroid 1998OR2 has a diameter of about 2 kilometres (1.3 mi) and it’s speed is a sizzling --,---.
28 kwi 2020 · An enormous asteroid—big enough to leave a six-mile-wide crater and darken the world with dust if it hit Earth—will harmlessly zip by our planet on April 29.
4 kwi 2020 · While asteroid 1998 OR2 is large enough to wreak havoc on Earth if it were to strike our planet, it won't come anywhere near a collision when it flies by on April 29.
