Asteroid 2023 BU Just Passed a Few Thousand Kilometres From Earth. Here’s Why That’s Exciting
There are hundreds of millions of asteroids in our solar system, which means new asteroids are discovered quite frequently. It also means close encounters between asteroids and Earth are fairly common. Some of these close encounters end up with the asteroid impacting Earth, occasionally with severe consequences. A recently discovered asteroid, named 2023 BU, has … Read more