On Friday, Earth will receive a visit from space: the large asteroid 2008 OS7 will pass by our home planet at a short distance by cosmic standards in the late afternoon. The chunk, which is several hundred meters in diameter, does not pose any danger: according to Information from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) According to NASA, it will pass the Earth at a speed of around 66,000 km/h at a distance of 2.85 million kilometers. This corresponds to about seven times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
370-meter asteroid flies past Earth today – space
