2.7 kilometer asteroid will fly over the Earth this month - The Ball

An asteroid 2.7 kilometers in length will fly over planet Earth on May 31, announced astronomical accident investigators on Friday.

body, called QE2 in 1998, was discovered in August 1998 by astronomers Project Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) andnot poses a threat to the planet.

You will pass at a distance of 5, 8 million kilometers of the blue planet and will be examined by the Goldstone Observatory in California and the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico.