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On 24 July 1998, NASA discovered an asteroid, orbiting our sun in between the orbits of Earth and Mars. NASA named it as asteroid 1998 OR2. It has a diameter of about 2 to 4 km and moving at a speed of 31,000 km/h. On 29th april 2020, at about 05:56 a.m. EDT, this asteroid will make a close flyby, passing at just 6.3 million km (3.9 million miles) away the Earth. That's more than 16 times the average Earth-moon distance.
NASA has classified this asteroid as "potentially hazardous" because it fulfills certain criteria in the agency's classification scheme. According to NASA, an asteroid qualifies as "potentially hazardous" if its orbit ever intersects Earth's orbit at a distance less than 7.5 million km, (4.6 million miles).
Asteroid 1998 OR2 won't fly by Earth again, until May 18, 2031, and it will be farther away, passing about 19 million km (12 million miles) from our planet. Its next two flybys, in 2048 and 2062, will be even farther away. The closest flyby of asteroid 1998 OR2 will be on April 16, 2079, when it will be only 1.8 million km (1.1 million miles) away. But for now, it poses no threat to Earth.
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