Car, bus, plane, building-sized asteroids to zoom past Earth by Jan 11

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has shared that five asteroids will make relatively close approaches to Earth between January 2 to 11.

NASA’s Asteroid Watch dashboard, that tracks celestial objects has shared that the asteroid passing by on January 2 – the 21 YK will be around 36 feet in diameter, the size of a bus and will pass through just 1,18,000 miles from Earth.

On January 5, an asteroid – 2021 YQ, approximately 220 feet in diameter will pass 1.3 million miles away from Earth. Another bus size asteroid named 2014 YE15 as large as 24 feet in diameter will pass 4.6 million miles away from Earth.