NASA DISCOVERS ASTEROID THAT MAY HIT EARTH IN 2046 ON THE DAY OF LOVE

Earth was struck by an enormous asteroid sixty-six million years ago. Along with destroying the dinosaurs, the collision left the Yucatán Peninsula with a massive crater beneath it. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that NASA closely monitors asteroidal threats. Furthermore, the government agency recently announced that on Valentine's Day in 2046, a newly discovered asteroid might collide with Earth.

NASA's Planetary Space Agency estimates that 2023 DW, which is roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool, has a "small chance" of making contact with our planet. Despite being more than 11 million miles away from Earth at the moment, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Sentry system estimates that 2023 DW has a 1 in 560 chance of reaching Earth.

The asteroid is not very dangerous, according to NASA's Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, but the agency is still learning more about its orbit. "It takes several weeks of data to reduce the uncertainties and adequately predict their orbits years into the future," the NASA Asteroid Watch Twitter account stated following the discovery of a new asteroid.