Object 2023 DZ2, a Potentially Hazardous Object, will pass as close as 100,000 miles from Earth this weekend. The asteroid is nearly 140 to 310 feet across, and scientists will use this opportunity to practice asteroid threat response. A professor at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Vishnu Reddy, says the asteroid will serve as a stand-in for a scenario in which a space rock is actually headed towards Earth. Scientists want to use the learnings from this exercise to avert or reduce the risk of an impact and its possible aftermath. The asteroid was recently spotted on … Continue reading Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2023 DZ2 Makes a Close Approach to Earth but Poses No Threat