A newly-detected asteroid with a diameter of about 161 feet has a “very small chance” of striking Earth on Valentine's Day in 2046, NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office said Wednesday.
The space rock, dubbed 2023 DW, was first spotted on Feb. 28 and has about a 1-in-625 chance of impacting our planet, according to the latest estimate by the European Space Agency.
“Often when new objects are first discovered, it takes several weeks of data to reduce the uncertainties and adequately predict their orbits years into the future,” NASA tweeted Wednesday. “Orbit analysts will continue to monitor asteroid 2023 DW and update predictions as more data comes in.”