Biggest Asteroid To Approach In April Arriving Next Week, NASA Reveals

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NASA’s asteroid tracking system is currently monitoring a building-sized space rock that’s expected to approach Earth in April. According to the data collected by the agency, the asteroid is big enough and is moving fast enough to cause a major impact event on the planet.

The approaching asteroid was detected by NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Identified as 363599 (2004 FG11), this asteroid has an estimated diameter of about 1,248 feet, which makes it almost as big as the Empire State Building.

According to CNEOS, the asteroid is moving across space and traveling towards Earth at an incredible speed of almost 55,000 miles per hour.

363599 (2004 FG11) is officially classified as an Apollo asteroid. This means that it follows a natural orbit that crosses Earth’s path as it completes its cycle around the Sun.

Due to its massive size and Earth-crossing orbit, 363599 (2004 FG11) has been labeled by NASA as a potentially hazardous asteroid.

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Biggest Asteroid To Approach In April Arriving Next Week, NASA Reveals

 

[PaulaJedi]

I really need to pull out my telescope. It has GPS tracking. So, the only date we have is "April"?

 

[TimeFlipper]

NASA’s asteroid tracking system is currently monitoring a building-sized space rock that’s expected to approach Earth in April. According to the data collected by the agency, the asteroid is big enough and is moving fast enough to cause a major impact event on the planet.

The approaching asteroid was detected by NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Identified as 363599 (2004 FG11), this asteroid has an estimated diameter of about 1,248 feet, which makes it almost as big as the Empire State Building.

According to CNEOS, the asteroid is moving across space and traveling towards Earth at an incredible speed of almost 55,000 miles per hour.

363599 (2004 FG11) is officially classified as an Apollo asteroid. This means that it follows a natural orbit that crosses Earth’s path as it completes its cycle around the Sun.

Due to its massive size and Earth-crossing orbit, 363599 (2004 FG11) has been labeled by NASA as a potentially hazardous asteroid.

Read more:
Biggest Asteroid To Approach In April Arriving Next Week, NASA Reveals

If this had happened last year for example, I might have thought it was an April 1st joke, even though the time of the Asteroid passing Earth is expected to be around April 11th....Neither Google or Microsoft including others, will be posting any April 1st jokes this year, obviously because of the Covid-19 virus outbreak..

 

[steven chiverton]

well if america goes to war it was predicted that as the war starts, an asteroid will hit the earth right in the midst of it so if this asteroid hits on the 11th and a war has started then we can know for sure if this prediction has any accuracy