"Close Encounters: Asteroids Whizzing By Earth"

An asteroid the size of a skyscraper, designated as 2024 BR4, will pass within 4.6 million kilometers of Earth on Valentine's Day. Discovered just weeks ago, it belongs to the group of asteroids known as Apollos and was captured in a recent image by the Virtual Telescope Project. Despite its close approach, experts assure that there is no cause for alarm as NASA continues to track over 33,000 near-Earth objects, with the risk of impact remaining minimal for the foreseeable future.