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Jordan CulverAn asteroid roughly the width of a football field will pass close enough to Earth this year to warrant the attention of the European Space Agency , though the space rock's actual threat to the planet is minimal.
The ESA's risk list organizes near-Earth objects by their Palermo scale rating, which measures potential impact risks. 2006 QV89's value is -3.63. According to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies; values on the scale"less than -2 reflect events for which there are no likely consequences."Another close encounter:The asteroid is about 131 feet in diameter, making it about 30 feet shorter than the width of a football field.
It's expected to pass 4.26 million miles away from Earth during its next close approach in September. For comparison, Earth's moon is an average of 238,900 miles away. In May, the asteroid 1999 KW4 — actually a system with two space rocks — passed about 3 million miles away from Earth.
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