NASA released a picture of a giant approaching Earth asteroid – PiterBurger.ru

The US space agency NASA has provided an opportunity to look at an asteroid called TV145, laying out his picture on the internet.

Recall that the space body flew very close to our planet on the night of the thirty-first day of October to the first of November this year. The distance to Earth was four hundred eighty-six thousand kilometers. Note that approximately the same remoteness is our moon.

The length of the cosmic body that this night could be seen even in a normal telescope, is six hundred meters. Full rotation around its axis makes this asteroid five Earth hours. Airspeed it into outer space is thirty-five kilometers per second.

Let us recall that the first time that an asteroid was detected by scientists at the beginning of the second month of autumn of this year. As this cosmic body is large and relatively close to the Earth moves in its orbit, it was granted the status – potentially dangerous.

Now, as much as possible to get close to our planet, the object will be able to in three years. Experts have established that the next hundred years, the asteroid will not be dangerous for the Earth.