2023-09-18 17:36:33
Isaac Newton Telescope and asteroid 2023 DZ2 – IAC
MADRID, 18 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
An international scientific team has confirmed that asteroid 2023 DZ2 follows an orbit synchronized with that of Jupiter and there is no real danger of collision with Earth in the short and medium term.
This celestial body, discovered in February of this year by the Isaac Newton telescope on the island of La Palma, It measures about 40 meters and its orbit crosses that of our planet.
According to a new study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, the object is affected by an unusual resonance with Jupiter and, “despite the fact that the Earth’s orbit intersects that of the asteroid, there is no real danger of collision in the future short and medium term”, reports the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC).
The results also reveal that the object is extremely solid and rotates about 10 times every hour. According to the scientific team, its composition is most likely metallic. In the event that an object of this type collided with the Earth, most of it would reach the surface of our planet and would not disintegrate when passing through the atmosphere.
“Having this information is important in the context of preventing and reducing its destructive effects on the natural environment,” highlights Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and co-author of the article. “Cosmic impacts, collisions of asteroids or comets with the Earth, They are one of the few natural disasters that can be predicted with great precision if sufficient data is available.“, Add.
To carry out the study, several observational techniques (spectroscopy and photometry), machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence have been used to identify new objects in the images obtained with the telescope, as well as numerical simulations to explore their evolution. dynamic.
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