Photo: APWashington: An intermediate-sized near-Earth asteroid will make a close approach to Earth on 4 February, without posing any threat of colliding with our planet, according to Nasa. “Our calculations indicate that asteroid 2002 AJ129 has no chance—zero—of colliding with Earth on February 4 or any time over the next 100 years,” said Chodas. 2002 AJ129 is an intermediate-sized near-Earth asteroid, somewhere between 0.5 and 1.2 kilometres across. It was discovered in 2002 by the former Nasa-sponsored Near Earth Asteroid Tracking project at the Maui Space Surveillance Site in Hawaii. Although asteroid 2002 AJ129 is categorised as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA), it does not pose an actual threat of colliding with our planet for the foreseeable future, according to Nasa.

Source: Mint January 23, 2018 09:33 UTC