NASA has confirmed that the asteroid 2019 YM6 will pass Earth on Saturday, July 31 at a speed of 30,131mph.

On Saturday, July 31, asteroid YM6 will fly by at a distance of 4.27 million miles from Earth. Its diameter is about 128 meters.

For comparison, the moon is 238,855 miles away from us. However, the asteroid will pass closer than Venus, 125.9 million miles away.

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“Despite the fact that computer analysis qualifies the object as an ‘asteroid near the Earth’, it is not potentially dangerous,” the experts reassured. 

YM6 2019 is known to orbit the Sun in 401 days. 

2019 YM6 is classed as an Apollo asteroid, “near-Earth asteroid orbits which cross the Earth’s orbit similar to that of 1862 Apollo”.

This asteroid already flew past the Earth on January 28, 2020. 

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After the current “meeting”, the next time it will approach the planet on January 27, 2031, at about the same distance (4.27 million miles ), and then – only in 2100.

Image Credit: NASA