"Upcoming Close Encounters: Asteroids Racing Near Earth in February"
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On February 22, an asteroid the size of a school bus, named 2024 DW, will pass within 140,000 miles of Earth, closer than the moon's average distance. Discovered by astronomers with the Mt. Lemmon Survey, it is one of several "potentially hazardous asteroids" passing by that day, but poses no threat. NASA regularly monitors such asteroids, and recent missions like DART and OSIRIS-REx aim to study and potentially deflect them.
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