New potentially hazardous asteroid discovered AAS_Publishing
The 1.5 kilometer- wide asteroid, named 2022 AP7, was discovered in area notoriously difficult to spot objects due to the glare from the Sun.
The newly-discovered asteroid is"the largest object that is potentially hazardous to Earth to be discovered in the last eight years," said NOIRLab, a US-funded research group that operates multiple observatories., which at its closest point to Earth remain several million kilometers away. Some 30,000 asteroids of all sizes—including more than 850 larger than a kilometer wide—have been catalogued in the vicinity of the Earth, earning them the label"Near Earth Objects" . None of them threaten Earth for the next 100 years.
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