A colossal asteroid, which scientists have only discovered this month, Saturday will narrowly skimming the earth. Because the asteroid or planotoïde this calculated during Halloween will do, it was nicknamed “Spooky”. This report different media.
The giant space rock was discovered in Hawaii with the Pan Starss telescope. It is estimated the diameter between 200 and 600 meters. Saturday night around 18:00 our time it is expected that the asteroid will approach the Earth our closest, namely to approximately 480.00 km. The distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384 000 km and therefore the asteroid is farther from Earth than the moon, but cosmic standards, the space rock is still relatively close.
Still, we need according to Paul Chodas of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Office for the asteroid to be afraid. Chodas: “The chances of this rock Saturday aanknalt against us is zero.” And that’s a good thing too, because the asteroid was discovered so late (three weeks ago) that did it must have been a danger to Earth, three weeks would not have been sufficient to evacuate all people from danger in time. This was reported by The Age
Detlef Koschny of ESA in Noordwijk says on the ESA’s website about the late discovery of the asteroid:. “The fact that such kind shearer, which might hefty damage cause if he would strike the earth, just 21 days before it is discovered, shows the necessity of everyday to keep an eye on the sky.
Material from the space can best do some damage. So brank in February 2013 a 20-meter asteroid into pieces over Chelyabinsk in Russia. Around Flying debris damaged buildings damaged more than 1,000 people were injured.
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