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Asteroid 2023 DZ2 is an approximately 200-ft.-wide asteroid passing near Earth this week. While not a threat, objects like it may be in the future, so NASA's DART mission monitors and tests how to redirect asteroids.
March 24, 2023
Ask the expert: Planetary scientist who redirects asteroids with NASA discusses asteroid 2023 DZ2
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2023 DZ2, NASA, asteroid monitoring
NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies detected an asteroid that will pass Earth by 108,758 miles this weekend, which is closer than the moon’s distance from Earth 238,855 miles away. Seth Jacobson, a planetary scientist in Michigan State University’s College of Natural Science, is a member of NASA and MSU’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission which is the world’s first planetary defense space mission and tested how to redirect asteroids that could hit Earth.
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