An astronomer photographed a large, one-kilometer-wide asteroid as it came closest to Earth in just 90 years on January 18
Potentially dangerous asteroid flew past the Earth / Фото: Virtual Telescope Project
The closest approach occurred on January 18 at 23:51 Kyiv time – asteroid 7482 passed 1.9 million kilometers from Earth.
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Astrophysicist and head of the Virtual Telescope project in Italy, Gianluca Masi, tracked the asteroid in motion, according to the Daily Mail.
The diameter of this asteroid is 1.052 km. It’s so much more than tallest building on earth – Burj Khalifa in Dubai, whose height is 828 m.
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As regards the composition of rocks, this normal rocky asteroid S-type. Due to dynamic shooting, it is visible in the image as a bright point, and the stars as long trails.
Asteroid 7482 is considered potentially dangerous asteroid. It will next approach Earth again in 2105.
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To show the movement of asteroid 7482 around the Earth, not only pictures were taken, but also animation.
According to NASA, between January 20 and 28 eight more space objects will fly past the Earth.
More than 28,000 known asteroids are regularly tracked by space agencies. intersect the Earth’s orbit from time to time.
On average, every 5 thousand years, the Earth falls a stone the size of a football field, and every million years an asteroid that destroys civilization.
In an attempt to deal with the threat, NASA sent a mission into space in November 2021, during which the spacecraft should crash directly into an asteroid.
The craft will also collect data in circumstellar space and record video of the impact with the object. Including with the help of the Ukrainian camera.
Earlier, we also wrote that an asteroid flying to Earth could be missed due to Starlink satellites.
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Source From: Segodnya
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