ASTEROID LARGER THAN PYRAMID TO ZOOM PAST EARTH

An asteroid described in various news sources as being larger than the pyramids in Egypt and bigger than the London Eye is passing by Earth on August 29.

Asteroid 2016 NF23 is interesting due to its size and the fact that it’s making a close approach to Earth later this month. NASA estimates it clocks in at somewhere between 230 feet (70 meters) and 524 feet (160 meters) in diameter. On the larger end of the scale, it would indeed be taller than the Great Pyramid.

Lucky for us, the close approach is actually pretty far away. It’s projected to pass us by at about 13 lunar distances, which works out to over 3 million miles (4.8 million kilometers) away. So you don’t have to worry about ducking as 2016 NF23 zooms past our little corner of the solar system.

There are other asteroids that’ll be even closer to us in the coming days, but nobody is freaking out about cute little 2018 PU23 which could be as small as 20 feet (6 meters) in diameter. It’s snuggling in at under 8 lunar distances during its flyby.

NASA tracks a huge catalog of near-Earth objects (NEOs). Sometimes space objects make it into our atmosphere, as we saw with a spectacular fireball earlier this month, but you can rest easy about 2016 NF23. It won’t even notice us waving at it.

According to NASA, no asteroid currently known is predicted to impact Earth for the next 100 years. Then again, that is scientists making that statement.



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