The asteroid was named 2022 AE1. The visual magnitude of the brightness is located at the limit of observation for large telescopes. According to researchers, a possible collision could occur on July 4, 2023. It was found on January 6 in a survey of the Mount Lemmon Astronomical Observatory in Arizona. Источник aif.ru They estimate the probability of a collision at a level of one in 1700. American scientists have discovered an asteroid that, in their opinion, has the highest risk of a collision with the Earth among all known near-Earth objects, RIA Novosti reports. Earlier, the state corporation Roscosmos estimated the probability of a collision of the asteroid Apophis with the Earth. The speed of movement is 19.83 kilometers per second. The size of a celestial body is 70 meters.