Asteroid 2001 FO32- The Largest Asteroid to pass by Earth in 2021

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Asteroid 2001 FO32

Asteroid 2001 FO32 is the largest asteroid that passed by Earth in 2021.
It was discovered 20 years ago by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) program in Socorro, New Mexico in 2001.
When it is at its closest to Earth, it is at a distance of 2 million km (Equal to 5¼ times the distance between Earth & moon). So, it has been designated as a “potentially hazardous asteroid”.
The reason for the asteroid’s close approach is its highly eccentric orbit around the Sun, an orbit that is tilted 39° to Earth’s orbital plane.
This orbit takes the asteroid closer to the Sun than Mercury, and twice as far from the Sun as Mars.

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