Thursday, December 25, 2014

2015: an asteroid is on convergence – St. Petersburg and the World

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January 26 closer to the Earth potentially hazardous asteroids. This is related by astronomers from Ekaterinburg reported, according to astronomers, it will be visible in telescopes at a distance of three times farther from Earth than the Moon. It is an object with a diameter of 1 km.

The cosmic body will be at a distance of only 2 million kilometers from Earth. On a peak speed of approach to Earth object will be 160 arc seconds per minute. The exact path of movement I have not seen, but it can be observed in the northern latitudes. In addition, according to scientists in the future it is expected a small parade of planets, when Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter are lined up on the horizon. This will happen in the autumn of 2015.

Recall that the Earth is much more than all known asteroids, but clash with the body size of more than 3 kbkjvtnhjd can lead to the destruction of civilization. Clash of the body smaller (but more than 50 meters in diameter) may cause numerous victims and enormous economic damage.

The most dangerous at the moment is considered the asteroid Apophis, with a diameter of about 300 m, when faced with that in the case of exact hit can be destroyed by a big city, but no threat to humanity as a whole, such a collision can not be held.

June 1, 2013 the asteroid 1998 QE2 closer to the closest distance to Earth over the past 200 years. The distance was 5.8 million kilometers

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