The asteroid Icarus record approach to Earth – Dni.Ru

15:34 / 16.06.2015 Asteroid, Earth, space The asteroid Icarus record close approach to the Earth. Astronomers claim that it will not pose a threat to our planet.

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According to the official website of NASA, it is expected that the rapprochement with the Earth Icarus occur at 15:39 UT (18:39 Moscow time). The distance from Earth to the celestial body will be eight million kilometers . It is 21 times more than the distance between Earth and the Moon.

How to assure astronomers NASA, our planet is not threatened Icarus . This asteroid approaches the Earth every 9, 19 and 38 years old. The next approximation to the planet Icarus happen roughly 14 June 2090. Then the distance between the Earth and the asteroid will break a new record of 6.5 million kilometers. This is the 17 distance between the Earth and the Moon.

It should be noted that the last time an asteroid Icarus, open the German astronomer Walter Baade in 1949 at Palomar Observatory in the United States approaching c Earth in 1996 and flew in the distance 15 million kilometers. Icarus is one of the first detection of near-Earth objects, and refers to the group Apollo. The diameter of the asteroid reaches about a kilometer and moves on a highly elongated orbit.

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