Newly discovered asteroid 2023 DW has a one in 1,584 chance of hitting Earth on Valentine's Day 2046, according to the ESA. The chances have plummeted that a newly-discovered asteroid with the The asteroid is expected to pass the Earth at about 100,000 miles away – about half the distance to the Moon – at about 3:51 p.m. EDT, NASA said Saturday on Twitter. Asteroid 2023 DZ2 will NASA has warned that a giant asteroid bigger than the Eiffel Tower will break into Earth’s orbit in just over a week. The huge 1,082 foot space rock is heading our way and should skim past us… The asteroid's path will be drastically altered by Earth's gravity once it zips by. Instead of circling the sun every 359 days, it will move into an oval orbit lasting 425 days, according to NASA. Using big telescopes, NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies looks for asteroids and comets (called near earth objects, or NEOs) that "enter Earth's neighborhood," meaning coming within 45 Nasa says a ‘lost’ asteroid the size of the Shard won’t hit us on October 5 – although we still technically don’t know where it is. The 54 million ton asteroid 2007 FT3 was spotted for A one-mile-wide asteroid on a collision course with Earth would hit the planet at around 30,000 miles per hour. An asteroid of this magnitude has roughly the same amount of energy as a one-million And a provocative new study suggests they are bigger than previously thought—meaning Earth is more at risk of getting hit hard, says James Garvin, chief scientist of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, who presented the work last week at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. “It would be in the range of serious crap happening.”. 27th March 2021, 06:36 PDT. NASA. Nasa said the Apophis asteroid no longer poses a threat to Earth within the next century. Earthlings can breathe a sigh of relief after US space agency Nasa Unless the asteroid is deflected, it will hit earth. And it's trajectory is to the greater Denver, Colorado area. Below is the risk map, showing the greatest possible outcome based on the bL6bUt4.