Asteroid roughly same size as the Titanic to pass by Earth this weekend

by STEFANIE DYGA | The National Desk

Wed, June 21st 2023 at 3:10 PM

In this image made from a NASA livestream and taken from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, asteroid Dimorphos is seen as the spacecraft flies toward it, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. (ASI/NASA via AP)

This illustration made available by Johns Hopkins APL and NASA depicts NASA's DART probe, foreground right, and Italian Space Agency's (ASI) LICIACube, bottom right, at the Didymos system before impact with the asteroid Dimorphos, left. (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP)

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In this image made from a NASA livestream and taken from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, asteroid Dimorphos is seen as the spacecraft flies toward it, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. (ASI/NASA via AP)

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WASHINGTON (TND) — An asteroid roughly the size of the Titanic will pass by Earth this coming Saturday, according to NASA's asteroid tracker.

NASA says the asteroid, also known as467336 (2002 LT 38), is around 840 feet long, or 269.5 meters, while the Titanic measured around882 feet,or 268.8 meters long. To put it in other terms, the asteroid is about the size of a stadium.

467336 was discovered in June 2002 by scientistsat the Lincoln Laboratory's Experimental Test Site in New Mexico.

Luckily, we don't have to worry about the asteroid getting too close to Earth–NASA says its approach will be around 4 million miles away.

Other asteroids that will be passing by in the coming days include (2008 LG2), the size of an airplane; (2023 MU), another airplane-sized object, and (2023 MQ), the size of a bus.

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