Image source, Gianluca Masi, The Virtual Telescope Project Image caption, The asteroid will be noticeable from Earth through fieldglasses An asteroid big adequate to damage a city hasactually passed inbetween the orbits of the Earth and the Moon – thankfully for us, missingouton both. The item, called 2023 DZ2, was found a month back. As forecasted by researchers, it passed within 175,000km of the Earth on Saturday after flying past the Moon. It is unusual for such a big asteroid – approximated to be inbetween 40 and 90m in size – to come so close to the world. Astronomers explained it as a once-in-a years occasion. According to Nasa, it was an crucial chance for astronomers to boost their understanding of asteroids, in the occasion
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