NASA announced that it is tracking a new asteroid known as DW 2023, with the possibility of it colliding with Earth in 2046.
In this context, NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office said "Typically, when new objects are first discovered, reducing the ambiguity and adequately predicting their orbits years into the future can take many weeks of data.". He added that orbital analysts will continue to monitor the asteroid "DW 2023"and update projections as more data is received.
It is noteworthy that the DW-2023 asteroid was discovered for the first time on February 27, 2023, and its diameter is estimated at about 50 meters.
It is worth noting that NASA is developing technologies to protect the Earth from an asteroid impact in the future, as a test mission has succeeded "Double asteroid reorientation" agency to impact its target asteroid "Dimorphos" On September 26, which contributed to changing the orbit of the lunar asteroid "Dimorphos" About 33 minutes.
