Over the next week, 5 asteroids are set to approach Earth, one of them about the size of two football fields. Astronomers have already explained whether they pose a real threat to our planet, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Which asteroids are approaching Earth On January 1st, astronomers detected a new asteroid and named it 2024 AA. It measures 11 meters and on the evening of January 2nd, it will come within 610,000 km of Earth. For comparison, this is almost twice the distance to the Moon. Another asteroid, 2023 YR, sized at 37 meters, will also pass by our planet on January 2…