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by: Kirstin Cole
Posted: Feb 2, 2024 / 07:05 AM EST
Updated: Feb 2, 2024 / 07:05 AM EST
NEW YORK (PIX11) – An asteroid that’s roughly the size of the Empire State Building will be having a close call with Earth on Friday.
The asteroid known as 2008 OS7 will come within 1.7 million miles of Earth, according to NASA. That’s seven times the distance of the moon to the Earth.
NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office said it’s closely monitoring the asteroid and other objects near Earth.
Officials said 859 asteroids larger than a kilometer have been discovered, and seven asteroids have passed closer to the Earth than the moon in the last month.
NASA said it’s prepared for the astronomical event with its national near-Earth object preparedness plan. The agency would use a gravity tractor to pull the object off its track and send up one of its dart rockets to strike the object enough to make it wobble off its trajectory.
In the worst-case scenario, NASA said it would use nuclear power to obliterate the object in space.
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