Three of the asteroids are due to fly by our home planet at distances of around 4 million miles, while one will approach nearly as close as the moon.
Several enormous asteroids are set to soar past the Earth between Friday and Sunday, each as large as an airplane.'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory , one of these four asteroids—named 2023 KS2—is due to fly by on June 2, while the other three—2023 HO18, 2023 JR2 and 2023 JE5—are set to pass two days later.
Another smaller asteroid named 2023 KZ2, around the size of a house, is also forecast to skim past the Earth on June 2. Stock image of an asteroid passing near to the Earth. Four asteroids around the size of an airplane are due to pass the Earth this weekend.Asteroids are chunks of rock and ice floating around our solar system, many of which are thought to be left over"Asteroids are 'bits of a planet that didn't happen' that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt.
These asteroids are due to pass by the Earth at a distance of roughly 2,450,000 miles for 2023 KS2, 4,050,000 miles for 2023 JR2, and 4,190,000 miles for 2023 JE5, while 2023 HO18 is due to pass a lot closer at a mere 290,000 miles. This is equal to around 1.2 times
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