Recently NASA declared that two small potentially Dangerous asteroids would whiz past earth very closely within a week.The two asteroids are known as 2018 CC and 2018 CB. While asteroid 2018 CC safely passed through Earth on February 6 at 12:10 p.m. PST (3:10 p.m. EST), the other asteroid 2018 CB is all set for a close pass by Earth on February 9, Friday. That means, on February 6, the 2018 CB will come very close to earth at around 2:30 p.m. PST (5:30 p.m. EST).
At its closest approach, the asteroid will be almost 39,000 miles (64,000 kilometers) from Earth which is very closed between Earth and Moon.NASA has termed this asteroid ‘potentially Risky’ because an asteroid is classified as ‘potentially hazardous’ if it comes within the 4,600,000 miles distance from our Earth. But NASA has said that 2018 CB will not harm our planet and will make a safe and close approach to the Earth.
Paul Chodas, at the NASA has confirmed that this asteroid of 2018 CB is quite small, it might well be larger than the asteroid that entered the atmosphere over another asteroid 2018 CC,Both the asteroids 2018 CC and 2018 CB were located on the same day, by a group of astronomers at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) near Tucson.
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