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[Regnum] The potentially dangerous asteroid 2024 MK missed the Earth at a distance of about 300,000 km. This was reported on June 30 by the press service of the Institute of Applied Mathematics named after. Keldysh Russian Academy of Sciences.
“Last night, the network’s telescopes monitored the flight of the potentially dangerous asteroid 2024 MK, which missed the Earth by about 300,000 km,” the report says.
The institute clarified that this asteroid is a relatively large celestial rock of the Apollo group.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 27, the asteroid 2011 UL21 approached the Earth at a distance of approximately 6.4 million km, which was the smallest value for this celestial body in more than 100 years. The asteroid was called the "planet killer" for its ability to cause large-scale damage and throw a significant amount of "garbage" into the atmosphere upon impact, which could provoke global climate change. The size of the celestial body is larger than the dimensions of 99% of objects that pass close to the Earth.
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