Asteroid Size of 8-Story Building To Fly Closer to Earth Than Moon

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2023 TM3, an 80-foot asteroid, is classified as a near-Earth object (NEO), but is too small to be considered a potentially hazardous object (PHO).

An 80-foot asteroid is due to soar past the Earth today, passing around twice as close to our planet as the moon.The asteroid, named 2023 TM3, is estimated to measure between 36 and 82 feet in diameter, according to NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies data. An 8-story building is around 80 feet tall, for comparison.2023 TM3 is forecast to pass the Earth at a distance of 0.00111 astronomical units, or around 100,000 miles.

3 astronomical units , or approximately 120 million miles/194 million km, are called near-Earth objects—or NEOs,' Svetla Ben-Itzhak, an assistant professor of space and international relations at Johns Hopkins University, told Newsweek. 'Astronomers consider a near-Earth object a threat if it has an Earth minimum orbit intersection distance of 0.05 AU or less and is at least 140 meters in diameter. Those are known as potentially hazardous objects .

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