"Upcoming Close Encounters: NASA's Latest Updates on Asteroid Flybys"
NASA has announced that the asteroid 2023 WZ3 will pass by Earth today at a distance of approximately 6.1 million kilometers, traveling at a speed of about 14352 kilometers per hour. Despite being almost as big as an aircraft, the asteroid is not considered a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid. It belongs to the Apollo group of Near-Earth Asteroids and has passed Earth before, with its next close encounter expected in 2036. NASA's advanced space telescopes and observatories have been instrumental in studying and tracking such celestial objects.