NASA is carefully tracking a massive asteroid that is scheduled to approach Earth on Saturday and Sunday.
The fast-moving space object (asteroid) is called 2022 JE1, and its diameter is between 50 meters (164 feet) and 155 meters (500 feet).
According to NASA’s List of Near-Earth Approaches, the asteroid is expected to come relatively close to Earth’s orbit on Sunday (July 3), although it hasn’t been classified as dangerous, or expected to directly collide with the planet.
Among the many asteroids, which have been observed over many years, asteroid 2022 JE1 was only discovered on May 7 this year.
At its closest point to Earth on Sunday, it is expected to pass 3.29 million kilometers (2.04 million miles) from our planet, about nine times the distance between Earth and the Moon.
NASA still classifies the asteroid as a “potential hazard” because it will lie 4.65 million miles from our planet.
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A different asteroid far from Earth is believed to hold 10,000 quadrillion (£8,250 quadrillion) worth of minerals that could completely change the future of our planet. 16 Psyche is an M-type asteroid, which means it appears to have higher concentrations of mineral phases. In this case, the planet contains iron, nickel, and gold.
This asteroid, one of the largest in our solar system, is about 140 miles in diameter and has been hypothesized to be the exposed core of a protoplanet.