Watch out! From today (Aug 10) to Aug 14, every day a different asteroid will be flying past Earth; details

Today, on August 10, Asteroid (NEO) 2022 PA1 will be paying us a visit albeit from the closest distance of 1,020,000 Kms, traveling at a speed of 16 kilometers per second. This particular asteroid is approximated to have the size of a house at roughly 55FT in diameter. The asteroid is currently in the constellation of Sagittarius. The asteroid 2022 PA1 was detected on August 06, 2022. The next close approach of asteroid 2022 PA1 to our planet will happen on August 16, 2118.

Tomorrow, on August 11, Asteroid (NEO) 2022 PK1 will be approaching Earth. This asteroid is estimated to be at least double the size of the one paying us a visit today, at 100ft in diameter this asteroid is as big as an Aeroplane. The asteroid 2022 PK1 will pass us at a distance of 5,210,000 Kms, traveling at a speed of 16 kilometers per second.

On August 11th, another asteroid 2022 LG4 (NEO) will be flying by our Planet Earth. Its size is estimated in the range from 90 meters to 201 meters, the biggest on this list. The asteroid 2022 LG4 was detected on June 02, 2022. At its closest the asteroid 2022 LG4 will be at 9.82 million kilometers from Earth, passing at a speed of 10 kilometers per second. The next close approach of asteroid 2022 LG4 to our planet will happen on July 31, 2046.

On August 12th, Asteroid 2015 FF (NEO) will be passing our planet Earth. At its closest, the asteroid 2015 FF will be at 4,280,000 km from Earth at a speed of 9 kilometers per second. The asteroid 2015 FF is smaller than the other two, approximated to be roughly around 53ft in diameter. The asteroid 2015 FF was discovered on March 16, 2015. The next close approach of asteroid 2015 FF to our planet will happen on August 19, 2066

On Saturday, August 13th, Asteroid 2022 OT1 (NEO) will be appearing in our skies, at its closest the 2022 OT1 will be around 4,760,000 kms from our planet Earth. 2022 OT1 is also the second biggest asteroid to approach our planet this week, at 110ft it is equal in size to the largest Blue Whale ever found on Earth. The asteroid 2022 OT1 was detected on July 25, 2022. This near-Earth object belongs to the Apollo group. The next close approach of asteroid 2022 OT1 to our planet will happen on January 31, 2024.

According to NASA, "Near-Earth objects (NEO) are asteroids and comets with orbits that bring them to within 120 million miles (195 million kilometers) of the Sun, which means they can circulate through the Earth’s orbital neighborhood. Most near-Earth objects are asteroids that range in size from about 10 feet (a few meters) to nearly 25 miles (40 kilometers) across."

The majority of near-Earth objects have orbits that don’t bring them very close to Earth, and therefore pose no risk of impact, but a small fraction of them – called potentially hazardous asteroids – require more attention. These objects are defined as asteroids that are more than about 460 feet (140 meters) in size with orbits that bring them as close as 7.5 million kilometers of Earth’s orbit around the Sun.

Space agencies take planetary defense very seriously and in November 2021, NASA launched an asteroid-deflecting spacecraft called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). DART is the first-ever mission dedicated to investigating and demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection by changing an asteroid’s motion in space through kinetic impact