Stadium-sized asteroid, 2 others to whiz past Earth in June: Know details

NASA is tracking three giant asteroids that will skim past Earth thi month. A number of large space rocks hurtling through the solar system will be approaching planet Earth in comparatively close range. NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) web-site at the Centre for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) reveals that they will be fast approaching the Earth this month.

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Asteroid 2002 NN4: June 6

Asteroid 163348 (2002 NN4) is the first of the large asteroids that will breach the Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance (MOID) of 0.05 AU (7.48 million kilometres). The space rock is believed to