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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NiyamaSinhalaya" data-source="post: 28548819" data-attributes="member: 113555">It is now confirmed that Asteroid 2023 BU will approach Earth within 10,000 km"When it passes by Earth at its closest on Thursday (Jan. 26) at 4:17 p.m. EST (2117 GMT), the space rock will be within less than 3% of the average Earth-moon distance at an altitude of just 2,178 miles (3,506 kilometers) above Earth's surface."It’ll pass below some of our satellites if I read correctly yesterdayIt will be an amazing view and the chance to see a cosmic rock pass by considerably closer than the geostationary satellites that are now in orbit.Using the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, astronomer Gennadiy Borisov found the asteroid 2023 BU on January 21. Since the analysis of the body's orbit indicated a near encounter with Earth, experts have been keeping a tight check on it.<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnWSBB8X0AAnrG3?format=jpg&name=large" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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