Two potentially dangerous asteroids are approaching Earth, the SUN newspaper is reported with reference to NASA data.
The first one of them is 2013 YD48 – the size of Big Ben, it has a width of about 104 meters and will pass by the planet on January 11 at a distance of 5.6 million kilometers.
The second – 7482 YD48 – twice as much more American skyscraper Empire State Building, it will approach the Earth at a distance of 0.013 Astronomical unit on January 18. This, according to the center of studying the near-earth objects, NASA is considered a close approach.
Earlier in the press service of the Moscow Planetaria, they were reported that the greatest danger represent those heavenly bodies that are not tracked by astronomers, and the world recognizes about them only after falling.