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A newly discovered asteroid hurtled past our planet at a distance of just 24,168 miles (38 895km) yesterday - just seven hours after it was discovered (stock image)

The asteroid was discovered at 08:24 UTC (08:24 GMT, 03:24 ET) on 18th January by Catalina Sky Survey and flew by at 15:43 UTC (15:43 GMT, 10:45 ET) that day. 

 

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New Delhi: An asteroid, larger than the tallest building on Earth, Burj Khalifa, is set to skim past the planet early next month, according to space experts.

 

The space rock has been dubbed 2002 AJ129 and it's bigger than the half-mile tall Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai.
As per reports, the asteroid will pass Earth on February 4, missing our planet by 2.6 million miles.

This is the third time an asteroid has flown past our Earth within one lunar distance since the start of this year, writes Watchers

Its next close approach will be on 20:37 UTC (20:37 GMT, 15:37 ET) on 19th November 2018 - but it won't be coming as close as it was yesterday for another 115 years at least.

The news comes just days after it was revealed asteroid 2019 BC, which is larger than the Burj Khalifa, is due to fly past our planet in less than two weeks.

 

 

The 2018 BD asteroid is 8.2 to 18 feet (2.5 to 5.5 metres) wide and passed so close to our planet it was nearly at the altitude at which satellites orbit

THE 2018 BD ASTEROID

A newly discovered asteroid hurtled past our planet at a distance of just 24,168 miles (38 895km) yesterday (18th January) - just seven hours after it was discovered. 

The 2018 BD asteroid is 8.2 to 18 feet (2.5 to 5.5 metres) wide and passed so close to our planet it was nearly at the altitude at which satellites orbit.

Anything that flies closer than six million miles of our planet is a near earth asteroid and could cause severe damage were it ever to crash into Earth. 

The asteroid was discovered at 08:24 UTC on 18th January by Catalina Sky Survey.

This is the third time an asteroid has flown past our Earth within one lunar distance since the start of this year, writes Watchers.

It's next close approach will be on 20:37 UTC on 19th November 2018 - but it won't be coming as close as it was yesterday for another 115 years at least.

That's still close enough to classify it as a "near-Earth object" and "potentially hazardous" by US space agency NASA.
If the 1.1km-wide asteroid was to strike us, it would likely send up enough soil and dust to blanket the planet and plunge Earth into darkness.
Asteroids are celestial objects that are smaller than planets, which are irregularly shaped and lack fixed orbits.
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