A much larger distance than the Image of Freedom will fly past the Earth on Christmas Day, NASA says

A much larger speed than the Image of Freedom will fly past the Earth at 8:20 pm GMT on Christmas Day, according to data from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Studies.

The asteroid, known as the 2014 SD224, comes within 0.02019 astronomical units, or nearly 1.9 million miles, from the Earth’s surface.

The 2014 SD224 has a diameter anywhere between 302 and 690 feet (92 to 210 meters) – meaning it could be more than twice the size of the Statue of Liberty (305 feet) or larger than the City -Salisbury Church (404 feet).

As the 2014 SD224 flies past the Earth, it travels at a speed of 10 kilometers per second or more than 22,000 miles per hour – about 30 times the speed of sound.

Despite being about eight hours longer than the Moon, the asteroid is considered near-Earth (NEO) and is being monitored by the space agency.

While the 2014 SD224 – which can be seen on NASA’s website – is at a distance of 1.9 million miles away, this is relatively close to celestial terms.

For this reason, the 2014 SD224 is defined by NEO, although it is not expected to cause damage.

A NEOn is an asteroid or comet that orbits or enters a zone between about 91 million and 121 million miles (195 million km) from the Sun, meaning it can pass inside about 30 million miles (50 million km) of Earth’s orbit. .

If the object is more than 460 feet (140 meters) across, it is considered dangerous (PHO).

‘NEOs are comets and asteroids that have been crushed by the gravitational pull of nearby planets into orbits that allow them to enter Earth’s orbit,’ NASA said.

‘Made up mostly of water ice with rooted dust particles, comets that were first formed in the outer planet’s cold system while most of the rocky asteroids were on the formation in the warmer inner solar system between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

‘The scientific interest in comets and asteroids is largely due to their status as the virtually unchanged debris from the solar system’s formation process about 4.6 billion years ago.’

According to publicly available NASA data, 24,629 NEOs were detected, as of Tuesday.

It is estimated that about 25,000 objects close to Earth (NEOs) are larger than 460 feet (140 meters).

And also 1,000 NEOs are estimated to be larger than 3,280 feet (one kilometer), highlighting the need to monitor these space rocks.

On average, Earth is hit by a football-sized rock every 5,000 years, and an asteroid that ends up in civilization every million years, according to NASA’s Near Earth Program.

‘By constantly searching for asteroids, we expect to find most of the asteroids on a scale of one hundred meters over time, as each one passes our planet several years or decades before potential impact, ‘said Paul Chodas, director at NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Studies, Newsweek said.

‘We have already created over 95 per cent of the very large asteroids (1 kilometer or 0.62 miles in size and over) and we know that none of them have any chance of overcoming the next. us. ‘

Last month, a bus-sized asteroid in London was reported missing the Earth by just 240 miles (386 km) – on Friday the 13th

The space rock, known as the ‘2020 VT4’, was only seen 15 hours after the approach of the last terrestrial warning system with a terrestrial impact on Mauna Loa, Hawaii.

If it had come a lot closer, the group would have been 16 to 33 feet (5 to 10 meters) wide and burned up in the atmosphere across the South Minch.

Its orbit took about the same distance from Earth as the International Space Station, making it the closest asteroid to Earth to date.