By- Srushti sharma
Asteroid Disaster !
Asteroid is also called minor planet in Hindi language. They are made in Hindi language. They are made of minerals and have a rocky structure.
Asteroids can be as large as 500 feet to 500 kilometers in size.
Like the planets in the solar system they also revolve around the sun. But their orbit sometimes comes in the way of the orbit of other planets.
Similarly 5 asteroids have passed near the Earth in the past day. That means a big danger had come towards the earth yesterday.
The size of the 2023 XC1 asteroid is said to be 57 feet which came as close to the Earth as 22.8 lakh kilometers.
Asteroid 2023 XK1 has passed within a radius of about 23 lakh kilometers of the Earth.
This asteroid was 62 feet in size NASA has described it as big as a house.
Asteroid 2023 XK2 the size of a house also passed at a distance of about 36 lakh kilometers from the Earth yesterday.
Asteroid 139622(2001 QQ142) was a 2200 feet long asteroid which was the size of a river bridge.
Asteroid 2023 XL was the fifth asteroid to be the size of an airplane. It was at a distance of 61.7 lakh km.