According to NASA, the celestial body will fly to Earth at the closest possible distance on Tuesday, at 23:39 Moscow time. The speed of the asteroid at this moment will be 20.96 kilometers per second, Mir24 reports.
Astronomers discovered this object on September 30, 1989. After that, he did not get into the telescope cameras for 33.5 years. The next time it was observed this year, on February 13.
Asteroid 349507 (2008 QY) is one of the Earth-crossers - astronomical objects crossing the orbit of the planet. It is considered potentially dangerous because it crosses the Earth's orbit at a distance of less than 7.5 million kilometers.
