The 2021 YK, which measures 12m wide, will fly within 118,000 miles of the planet this Sunday.Īnd then 2014 YE15, which is a measly 7m wide, will pass by on January 6, getting within 4.6 million miles of Earth. To sign up to any of our newsletters, visit this link here. The morning newsletter arrives every day before 9am and the evening newsletter, manually curated by the team, is sent at 6.30pm, giving you a round up of the most important stories of the day. Get all the latest news and headlines from Edinburgh, Fife and the Lothians sent straight to your inbox twice a day by signing up to our free newsletter.įrom breaking news to the latest on the coronavirus crisis in Scotland, we'll have you covered. There are three more that are set to pass by the Earth before it does so. Scientists track thousands of these to observe whether they’re on a collision course with Earth or not.Īnd as if the threat of 2013 YD48 was not bad enough, it is not the only asteroid set to come close to the Earth in coming weeks. Dramatic footage shows heroic Scots dad on top of mountain dressed as Santaĭue to the distances they fly in from, tiny changes in their trajectories could be literally fatal for Earth.Edinburgh services affected as ScotRail introduce January timetable due to Covid.It has been reported that NASA classify anything that passes within 120 million miles of Earth as a Near-Earth Object (NEO). READ MORE - Speeding Scottish driver who killed pensioner is found dead in his jail cellĪnd, whilst the 3.48million miles it’ll miss Earth by seem massive, in terms of distance in space, it’s actually not that much. The Mirror reported the asteroid is approximately 104 metres wide, meaning it is wider than Big Ben is tall. The astronomers named the huge rock Asteroid 2013 YD48 and labelled it a "potentially hazardous object" that will pass within 2.48 million miles of Earth on January 11. An asteroid the size of a skyscraper is going to enter the earth's atmosphere in the New Year, according to NASA.
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