NASA announced that a group of five meteorites, the largest of which is the size of an airplane, were hurtling towards Earth over the weekend. However, the closest distance they approached was nearly a million miles.
Asteroids approaching Earth always attract the attention of scientists because of their catastrophic potential. Although most of them burn up upon entering Earth’s atmosphere, some larger asteroids can cause significant damage.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the United States Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) still regularly monitors these meteorites. JPL recently announced that a series of asteroids will fly past Earth in the coming days.
Specifically, Asteroid Monitoring System of NASA tasked with tracking asteroids shows that some meteorites and comets will approach Earth at a relatively close distance. The system can also calculate the last encounter date, diameter, and approximate size and distance from Earth of each asteroid.
In just 2 days, 5-6/4.5, the meteorite will approach our planet, the closest approach distance to Earth being 913,000 km away. asteroid 2023 GEthe size of a bus.
Celestial images recorded by the AsteroidWatch system.
Celestial images recorded by the AsteroidWatch system. (Picture: Twitter/NASA).
2023 FZ3 – The largest asteroid of these measures approximately 46 m in diameter and is expected to pass close to Earth on April 6. This celestial body is rushing towards Earth at a speed of 67,656 km/h and its closest approach is at a distance of 4.19 million km. However, according to NASA, this star does not pose a danger to Earth.
In addition, other meteorites will also approach Earth at close range, including 2023 GE with a diameter of 11 m; 2023 FE4 with a diameter of 30 m; 2023 Q7 has a height of 20 m and FD 2018 with a size of 45 m, the closest approach to Earth occurs on April 5-6.
Approximately 30,000 asteroids (including more than 850 asteroids measuring more than 1 km wide) have been discovered by NASA and will approach Earth in the future and are classified as “”Near-Earth Object” (NEO). However, not all of these celestial bodies will pose a threat to Earth in the next 100 years.
According to NASA, asteroids are leftovers from the formation of our solar system. The solar system began about 4.6 billion years ago when a large cloud of gas and dust collapsed. When this happened, most of the material fell into the center of the cloud and formed the sun. Some of the condensed dust became planets.
Recently, NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office said that a newly discovered asteroid measuring nearly 50 m will likely collide with Earth on February 14, 2046.
Although asteroid tracking information is available from a variety of sources, the majority of it is collected by NASA-sponsored observatories such as Pan-STARRS, Catalina Sky Survey, and the NEOWISE mission.
Sentry Impact Monitoring Systemlocated at the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, conducts extensive and ongoing assessments of the orbits of hazardous asteroids over long periods of time.
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