New Delhi: An asteroid, larger than the tallest building on Earth, Burj Khalifa, is set to skim past the planet early next month, according to the space experts. As per the reports, the asteroid will pass earth on February 4, missing our planet by 2.6 million miles.
However, that still close enough to classify it as a near-Earth object and potentially hazardous by US space agency NASA. Asteroids are celestial objects that are smaller than planets, which are irregularly shaped and lack fixed orbits.
In our solar system, most asteroids originate from the asteroid belt, a zone between Mars and Jupiter where these objects are scattered.
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