Scientists have discovered a large asteroid that will fly incredibly close to Earth on March 17. According to Forbes, a "

It will fly between the moon and the earth. The size of the asteroid can be compared with the Chelyabinsk meteorite that exploded over Russia in 2013. The fall of that “superbolide” happened without any warning.

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The new asteroid has been designated 2023 EY and is already on NASA's list of potentially hazardous objects.. It includes asteroids that approach the Earth by more than 7.5 million kilometers, which is 19.5 times the distance to the Moon..

2023 EY will come much closer - it will fly at a distance of 240 thousand kilometers from the planet. This is approximately two to three distances from the Earth to the Moon..

The object belongs to the Apollo group. These asteroids are rocky remnants from the formation of our solar system about 4.6 billion years ago.. They are mostly found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.. However, the Apollo asteroids are a class of objects (named after the asteroid 1862 Apollo) whose orbit is larger than the Earth's orbit around the Sun and whose path intersects the path of our planet..

Previously, scientists have discovered an asteroid that could potentially fall to Earth. Space rock, designated 2023 DW, tops European Space Agency's 'Risk List'.