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NASA tracks asteroid with small chance hitting Earth

LOS ANGELES: NASA has been tracking a new asteroid named 2023 DW that has a 1/600 chance of impacting Earth in 2046.

“Often when new objects are first discovered, it takes several weeks of data to reduce the uncertainties and adequately predict their orbits years into the future,” NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office tweeted.

Orbit analysts will continue to monitor asteroid 2023 DW and update predictions as more data comes in, according to NASA.

Asteroid 2023 DW was first detected on Feb. 27, 2023, and is estimated to measure approximately 50 meters in diameter.

NASA has been working on developing techniques to protect Earth against an asteroid impact in the future.

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission successfully impacted its target asteroid, Dimorphos, on Sept. 26 last year, which altered the orbit of the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos by 33 minutes.

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M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.