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Asteroid news: Wednesday, February 16 witnesses a data with a gargantuan asteroid dubbed 2021 BS3 (Image: Express)
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In addition to the asteroid’s size and distance, NASA experts are also impressively able to provide an accurate sense of its speed.
Using their cutting-edge technology, the space agency confirms the body to be travelling at 10.37 km/s or 23,197mph.
To put this into perspective, this asteroid is so fast, it is shooting through space ten times faster than a bullet fired from a gun.
But such speeds are actually the norm in the extreme environment of space.
Asteroid news: More is now known about the space rock responsible for the Chicxulub crater (Image: Getty)
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