The European Space Agency announced that a large asteroid will pass between the Earth and the Moon on Saturday, noting that this event, which only occurs once every ten years, does not pose any danger and will serve as a training for planetary defense techniques.
- From this standpoint, the International Asteroid Alert Network decided to take advantage of this convergence, and therefore several tools such as spectrometers and radars will be used to analyze “2023 DZ2”.
- Moisel noted that this would serve as an exercise in how the network would “deal with such a threat” in the future.
It will pass once more following 3 years
- Calculations of astronomers show that the asteroid will pass once more near Earth in 2026, but at a greater distance, and therefore it will not pose any danger of collision with it during the next hundred years at least.
