The US space agency, NASA, said that a new asteroid passed 64 thousand kilometers of land, without a collision.
The agency said in a statement on Saturday that the asteroid passed near Earth on Friday, becoming the second space rock going into orbit within a week.
Paul Chaudas, director of NASA's Near-Earth Objects Research Center, said the newly discovered asteroid, ranging in size from 15 to 40 meters, passed near Earth safely without any chance of a collision.
He noted that the name (2018 - CB) was launched on the asteroid, which arrived at the nearest point of the earth at about 22:30 GMT yesterday.
Chuadas said that asteroids of this magnitude "do not often approach this distance from Earth, and may pass once or twice a year."
Last Tuesday, another asteroid measuring between 15 and 30 meters, called "2018 CC", passed within the lunar distance 184,000 kilometers from Earth.
Astronomers at the Catalina Sky Center, funded by the agency near Tucson, Arizona, have discovered asteroids this month, NASA said
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