Two asteroids will pass “close” to Earth according to NASA. Asteroid 2016 CZ31 will pass this Friday, July 29, followed by 2013 CU83 on Saturday, July 30.
A 120-meter piece of rock will pass “close” to Earth on Friday, according to data from NASA’s Center for Near Earth Objects Studies (CNEOS). This asteroid discovered in 2016 will be in the vicinity of our planet on the night of Friday to Saturday. A relative proximity when we know that it will actually pass 2.7 million kilometers from Earth. This corresponds to 7 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon. It will pass at 55,000 km/h
According to NASA, this is not the first time that this asteroid has approached Earth, it had already appeared at a similar distance in 1922. It had also returned to our solar system in 2010 and 2015. after research by the space agency, we will not see him again until July 22, 2041.
A second asteroid the following night
The second space object should appear at a distance of 6.9 million kilometers overnight from Saturday to Sunday. Slower than its predecessor, the 2013 CU83 should slice through the sky at 21,082 km/h.
These reports are frequent from NASA, but for now the distance is far too great to worry about.