Washington: As per the small print issued by NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), the asteroid 2024 CJ1 is anticipated to go Earth at a distance of simply 367,000 kilometres right now, which is nearer to Earth than the Moon.

It is without doubt one of the closest asteroid approaches in 2024 to this point. The asteroid is already travelling in direction of Earth in its orbit at 27463 kilometers per hour which is similar to Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs)!

Asteroid 2024 CJ1 belongs to the Apollo group of Near-Earth Asteroids, that are Earth-crossing house rocks with semi-major axes bigger than Earth’s. These asteroids are named after the humongous 1862 Apollo asteroid, found by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth within the Nineteen Thirties.

According to NASA, this isn’t the primary time that Asteroid 2024 CJ1 has come near Earth. It first handed the planet on January 12, 2018, at a distance of roughly 65 million kilometres. After right now, it’ll go the planet once more this yr on July 17, at a distance of 57 million kilometres.

NASA says Asteroid 2024 CJ1 is sort of the scale of a bus with a width of almost 22 ft. However, it has been deemed non-threatening and has not been categorized as a Potentially Hazardous Object, that means that it doesn’t pose a hazard to Earth.