Meteors are set to cross Earth on September 1

Also according to NASA, at a speed of 8.6 km / s, a meteorite named 2011 ES4 will fly over the Earth at a safe and harmless distance because it is 45,000 miles from Earth.

The 2011 ES4 meteorite was first discovered in 2011 and flies over the Earth every 9 years. This time, it will fly closer to Earth at an estimated distance of 120,000 km, or 384,000 km closer than Earth to the Moon.

Currently, astronomers around the world are tracking nearly 2,000 asteroids, comets, and objects that could threaten Earth. Since meteors destroyed dinosaurs 66 million years ago, our planet has never experienced a similar catastrophe. However, small asteroids still fall regularly on Earth.

According to NASA, no large meteorite or comet is likely to crash into Earth in the next hundred years. However, the agency regularly rechecks the planned flight paths of celestial bodies.