Sunday, September 7, 2014

Asteroid passes close to Earth – De Morgen

9.7.14, 19u48 – Source: vtmnieuws.be, ANP, Belga

dm video A newly discovered asteroid the size of a house at 20 o’clock passed the Earth at a relatively short distance. The asteroid, 2014 RC, passed 40,000 kilometers, a tenth of the distance from the moon to the earth. That the American space agency NASA reported.

according to NASA asteroid provides no danger to weather and communications satellites, which typically rotate with the earth at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers. The space rock has a diameter of about 18 meters. He would not be seen with the naked eye, but probably with the relatively small telescopes of amateur stargazers. Given the trajectory of the asteroid brings the thing in the future in our region, experts will object to follow. Observant

2014 RC is a fraction smaller than the asteroid that last year exploded over Russia’s Chelyabinsk. By the associated pressure wave killed countless windows and buildings were damaged. There were around a thousand injured.

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