The asteroid will approach at a distance of 3,600 km from the Earth’s surface, much closer than several satellites orbiting the Earth..
NASA said in a statement on Wednesday "There is no danger of the asteroid hitting the Earth".
Even if such a collision occurred, the asteroid, which has a diameter of 3.5 meters to 8.5 meters, would largely disintegrate in the Earth’s atmosphere, which could result in a few small meteorites, according to Agence France-Presse.
The asteroid was spotted, on Saturday, by an observatory in Crimea, by amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov, who had previously spotted a comet among the stars in 2019..
Then dozens more observations were made from observatories around the world.
The US space agency said that NASA’s impact risk assessment system quickly concluded that the asteroid "It will not hit the ground".
NASA researcher David Farnocchia, who helped develop the system, said: "Despite the very small number of observations, the system could predict that the asteroid would pass very close to Earth".
He continued: "In fact, this is one of the closest an object has ever come close to Earth".
The asteroid will come very close, as its path around the sun will change dramatically. NASA said that the asteroid previously took 359 days to complete its orbit around the sun, but after this great approach with Earth, it will take 425 days to complete its orbit..
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And “NASA” stated that the asteroid “BU-2023”, which was recently spotted by an amateur astronomer, will approach the southern tip of South America at approximately 16:27 Pacific Time (00.27 GMT Friday), Thursday..
The asteroid will approach at a distance of 3,600 km from the Earth’s surface, much closer than several satellites orbiting the Earth..
And NASA said in a statement, on Wednesday, that “there is no danger that the asteroid will collide with Earth.”
Even if such a collision occurred, the asteroid, which has a diameter of 3.5 meters to 8.5 meters, would largely disintegrate in the Earth’s atmosphere, which could result in a few small meteorites, according to Agence France-Presse.
The asteroid was spotted, on Saturday, by an observatory in Crimea, by amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov, who had previously spotted a comet among the stars in 2019..
Then dozens more observations were made from observatories around the world.
The US space agency said that NASA’s impact risk assessment system quickly concluded that the asteroid “will not hit Earth.”.
“Despite the very small number of observations, the system was able to predict that the asteroid would pass very close to Earth,” said NASA researcher David Farnocchia, who helped develop the system.“.
He continued: “In fact, this is one of the closest times an object has ever come close to Earth“.
The asteroid will come very close, as its path around the sun will change dramatically. NASA said that the asteroid previously took 359 days to complete its orbit around the sun, but after this great approach with Earth, it will take 425 days to complete its orbit..