Washington: US Space Agency NASA has said that an asteroid named ‘2008 GO20’ is headed towards the Earth at 18,000 miles an hour and will pass the planet on July 24.
However, the scientists who are currently monitoring the movement of this asteroid have said that there is nothing to worry about.Â
The space agency has categorised the flying object as a Apollo class asteroid; for common people, it is as big as a stadium, or thrice the size of the Taj Mahal.
Though the asteroid will be very close to Earth, it will still be 0.04 au (astronomical unit) away from Earth, according to Nasa’s calculations. That’s a distance of 3,718,232 miles. To put it in perspective, the moon is approximately 238,606 miles from Earth.
Asteroid 2008 GO20 won’t come any closer than 2,605,509 miles miles, according to interactive map give by Nasa.
However, it has still been classified as Near Earth Object by Nasa due to its close approach with Earth.
