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Its actual size is estimated to be between 1.5 and 4 kilometers in diameter, as indicated on the space agency’s website. It is traveling at  a speed of 8.7 kilometers per second  and is estimated to approach our planet on June 29 of this year.

Compared to other asteroids, to illustrate the difference, the Chelyabinsk asteroid, which hit Siberia in 2013 and  caused nearly 1,500 injuries  and extensive destruction to buildings, was about 15 meters wide and 17 meters long.