53-foot asteroid narrowly misses Earth at high speed

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A 53-foot house-sized asteroid, Asteroid 2024 NM1, passed within 424,000 miles of Earth at 17.95 km/s (40,155 mph). Classified as a near-Earth object (NEO) in the Apollo group, it will return in 2027 at a faster speed of 60,861 mph. NASA's Small-Body Database tracked it for years, but it wasn't listed on the website until today. Missed asteroids often approach from behind the Sun, making detection challenging.


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