Asteroid shaves by Earth – Telegraaf.nl

CAPE CANAVERAL –

A newly discovered asteroid the size of a house passes Sunday night the earth at a relatively short distance. The asteroid, 2014 RC, skims over 40,000 kilometers, a tenth of the distance from the moon to the earth. That the American space agency NASA reported

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according to NASA asteroid provides no danger to weather and communication satellites, which tend to an altitude of 36,000 kilometers with the earth turning. The space rock has a diameter of about 18 meters. He will not be seen with the naked eye, but probably with the relatively small telescopes of amateur stargazers.

2014 RC is a fraction smaller than the asteroid that exploded over the last year, 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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