2014RC asteroid approaching Earth. September 7 it will be as close as possible to her own – 40 thousand kilometers. This is 10 times closer to the Earth than the Moon’s orbit. The diameter of the asteroid – 20 meters.
Asteroid spotted on August 31 with the help of the American telescope Pan-STARRS-1, mounted on top of the Hawaiian volcano Haleakala on Maui, according to ITAR-TASS. According to scientists, people of the world will be able to see a celestial body with the help of amateur telescopes.
Astronomers have assured that the asteroid poses no threat to space satellites and for the Earth. However, experts point out that after a while he again pass by the planet close enough. On the re-transmission of an asteroid with the Earth and the possible risks forecasts until scientists prefer not to do.
NASA will carefully monitor the further path of a celestial body. Astronomers noted that asteroids of similar size often approach the Earth, but the disaster due to the fall of the heavenly bodies of this size on the surface of the planet occur on average only once every 1,000 years.
The threat of asteroids is real . The so-called near-Earth objects – large space wanderers – came face to face with our planet in the early stages of its history.
Because one of these asteroids, most likely, dinosaurs , the other, faced with our planet a little bit earlier, caused the Earth’s axis tilt . The same relatively small meteorites that fell to Earth in human memory, causing mass panic and a huge material damage . However, most of these “stones” were no more by volume of the refrigerator and brought so much inconvenience.
“Among the near-Earth objects, there is a hundred times more asteroids, which we have already found. Our planet potentially threatens millions more space rocks that could wipe out a major metropolis. We have to find these asteroids before they find us ” – said Ed Lu ( Ed Lu ), a former astronaut of NASA and co-founder of B612 .
Currently, United Nations ( UN ) has been developing a new programs to prevent collisions of asteroids with our planet. The project was named “International Group warning of asteroid threat” (International Asteroid Warning Group).
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2014RC asteroid approaching Earth. On September 7, it will be as close as possible to her own – 40 thousand kilometers. This is 10 times closer to the Earth than the Moon’s orbit. The diameter of the asteroid – 20 meters.
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