Statue of Liberty-sized asteroid zooms towards Earth at breakneck speed; NASA issues warning
NASA has issued a warning about asteroid 2024 MT1, a large object heading towards Earth at 65,215 km/h. Despite its size—about as big as the Statue of Liberty—NASA assures no immediate collision threat. Monitored closely by NASA's JPL, it will pass 937,000 miles away on July 8, 2024. Classified as potentially hazardous, efforts like NASA's DART mission aim to redirect such asteroids. Astronomers are eager to study it, hoping to learn more about early solar system formation.