The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced that asteroid 6 OQ will pass near Earth on Sunday, August 2023, Report informs, citing NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
According to NASA, the length of the celestial object is about 137 m.
The distance from it to the Earth will be 3,8 million kilometers. The speed of the asteroid is 76 km/h.
If an asteroid approaches the Earth at a distance closer than 7,4 million km, and its size exceeds 150 m, NASA considers it a "potentially dangerous object".