Feb 26, 2021 01:40 AM EST
Next month, an asteroid as large as the Golden Gate Bridge will run far past the planet. However, while this is the largest and fastest asteroid flying near our planet this year, there is no need to worry.
Asteroid 231937 (2001 FO32)
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385446 03: PHOTO FILE: A mosaic image of an asteroid Eros at its north pole, taken by the NEAR Shoemaker robotic space probe February 14, 2000 just after the spacecraft was launched to orbit. After a year of circling and taking photos, NEAR will be swiping down an asteroid Eros February 12, 2001, to capture surface details, and this is the first time any craft has attempted to land on a space rock.
According to data released by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the space rock, officially named 231937 (2001 FO32), is about 0.5 to 1 mile (0.8 to 1.7 kilometers) in diameter. and will pass within 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) of Earth at 11:03 a.m. EST (1603 GMT) on March 21, close enough and large enough to be listed as’ potentially dangerous. ‘
NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies said an asteroid is classified as ‘potentially dangerous’ when the orbit intersects with Earth at a distance of no more than about 4.65 million miles (7.5 million km) and is more than about 500 feet (140 meters) in diameter (CNEOS).
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Asteroids
According to NASA’s Office of Coordinated Defense Protection, tiny asteroids travel between Earth and the moon several times a month. Their parts converge and fall into the Earth’s atmosphere almost constantly (PDCO).
Rocky, airless traces are asteroids left over from the early development of our solar system about 4.6 billion years ago, which were also considered small planets.
EarthySky Telescope
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According to EarthSky, telescopes in New Mexico that are part of the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Exploration (LINEAR) program, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory program of the U.S. Air Force and NASA, discovered the asteroid on March 23, 2001.
Since then it has been watched by viewers. These observations have been used by scientists to measure the orbit of the asteroid and to determine how close the space rock comes to Earth as it whistles at about 77,000 mph (124,000 km / h). ).
The known number of asteroids is 1,063,331.
Much of this ancient debris is found within the main asteroid belt orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids have a long distance from Vesta to bodies less than 33 feet (10 meters) long, the largest at about 329 miles (530 kilometers) in diameter. The total mass of asteroids together is less than the size of the Earth’s moon.
For the next 100 years, a known asteroid is not a major threat to Earth. According to NASA’s PDCO, the most recently identified asteroid (410777) 2009 is the highest risk of FD, which has a 1 in 714 (less than 0.2 percent) risk of hitting the Earth in 2185 .
Some of the best known asteroids are:
- 1 Ceres
- 4 Vesta
- 2 Pallas
- 10 Hygiea
- 704 Interamnia
- 52 Europa
- 511 David
- 87 Sylvia
- 31 Euphrosyne
- 15 Eunomia
- 451 Patientia
- 624 Hektor
- 3 Juno
- 65 Cybele
- 16 Psyche
- 88 Thisbe
- 19 Fortuna
- 532 Herculina
- 48 Doris
- 45 Eugenia
- 7 Iris
- 423 Diotima
- 13 Egeria
- 41 Daphne
- 94 Aurora
- 107 Camilla
- 24 Subjects
- 375 Ursula
- 702 Alauda
- 29 Amphitrite
- 121 Hermione
- 259 Aletheia
- 372 Palma
- 6 Hebe
- 120 Lachesis
- 9 Metis
- 128 Nemesis
According to NASA’s PDCO, NASA is exploring ways to find asteroids that end up in the course of a collision with the Earth, such as using the weight of a flying satellite to pull asteroids from their orbit to a safe distance.
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