NASA reports that an asteroid will pass close to Earth

The rock travels at 9.1 kilometers per second and is 11 meters in diameter.

This Monday, January 11, 2021, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, for its acronym in English, reported that an asteroid will pass close to the earth.

The North American agency confirmed that the rock travels at 9.1 kilometers per second and is 11 meters in diameter. The asteroid, according to experts, has already passed Mars.

The latest reports indicate that the rock will pass close to the earth, to later orbit venus, the sun and leave the solar system again, without leaving significant effects

On the other hand, NASA reported that a “potentially dangerous” asteroid will pass near the earth on May 6, 2022. This rock has the same size as the one that fell in Chelyabinsk, Russia, 2013 releasing an energy of 500 kilotons, proportional 30 atomic bombs from Hiroshima

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