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Asteroid 2019 CB2 will pass the Earth at 1.04 million kilometers at 1.20am GMT (UTC) on Sunday, February 10. Image captured from the interactive JPL Solar System Dynamics Small Body Database Browser. Asteroid 2019 CB2, classed as on “Earth Close Approach”, will breach speeds of nearly 29,125mph or 13.02km per second as it passes our planet and the flyby comes just five days after NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory first observed the rock on February 2. As of February 5, 2019, NASA has discovered a total of 19,585 Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs). More than 8,500 of these objects measure more 460ft (140m) in diameter – these are additionally dubbed “Potentially Hazardous Asteroids”. Another 897 of the 19,000 asteroids measure a cataclysmic 3,289ft (one kilometer) or more across. Asteroid 2019 CB2 is a much smaller object estimated to be in the range of 59ft to 127.9ft (18m to 39m) in diameter.
