Monstrous asteroid to speed by Earth next week - Fox News

A ample "potentially hazardous asteroid" is expected to plaything less than six lunar distances from Earth astatine the opening of adjacent month. 

The asteroid, known arsenic 2022 RM4, is expected to walk by Earth connected Nov. 1 – astir 1.5 cardinal miles distant astatine its closest point.

According to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies, the asteroid has an estimated diameter of betwixt 330 and 740 meters, oregon up to implicit 2,400 feet.

It volition pass by the bluish planet astatine astir 52,500 miles per hour, according to LiveScience. 

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An asteroid implicit Earth (iStock)

Any abstraction entity that comes wrong 120 cardinal miles of Earth is deemed a "near-Earth object." 

Any ample assemblage wrong 4.6 cardinal miles of Earth is classified with the astronomical term: a "potentially hazardous asteroid." 

In this representation made disposable by NASA, debris ejects from the asteroid Dimorphos, right, a fewer minutes aft the intentional collision of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) ngo connected Sept. 26, 2022, captured by the adjacent Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube. On Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2022l, NASA said the spacecraft succeeded successful shifting its orbit.  (ASI/NASA via AP)

2022 RM4 is besides an Apollo-type asteroid, which is simply a people of objects named for asteroid 1862 Apollo.

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Such asteroids person an orbit that is larger than Earth’s orbit astir the prima and their way crosses Earth’s path. 

2002 RM4 orbits the Sun each 1,397 days and its way does occasionally transverse Earth’s orbital way astir the Sun.

This imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope from Oct. 8, 2022, shows the debris blasted from the aboveground of Dimorphos 285 hours aft the asteroid was intentionally impacted by NASA’s DART spacecraft connected Sept. 26.  (NASA/ESA/STScI/Hubble)

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According to NASA, Earth faces nary known danger from an apocalyptic asteroid collision for astatine slightest the adjacent century.

In addition, the agency's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft precocious redirected the non-hazardous asteroid Dimorphos by sending it disconnected course.