Asteroid approaching Earth - NASA

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has warned that the asteroid, which has a diameter of 84 to 190 meters, will fly at a minimum distance from Earth in the coming days. It is reported by NASA. According to the US Aerospace Agency, an asteroid called 2009 PQ1 will be as close to Earth as possible on August 5. On this day, it will fly at a speed of 13.4 km/s at a distance of only 3.2 million kilometers from our planet. Recall that the asteroid discovered on August 14, 2009 belongs to the Apollo of those asteroids whose orbits cross the orbit of the Earth. See also: An asteroid was named after a Chinese scientist