Washington, February 18, 2016, 13:14 – REGNUM Asterioid designated by astronomers as the TX68 2013, approaching Earth, reports National Geographic.
NASA did not consider it possible to its collision with the Earth, but they do not have exact data, how close it will pass by Earth. Maximum convergence of our planet and the asteroid will happen on 5 March. According to some forecasts, the asteroid will pass at a distance of 14 million kilometers, which is 35 times greater than the distance from the Earth to the Moon. But another forecast put the figure of 17 thousand kilometers, and it is beyond the orbit of geostationary satellites.
The reason for such inaccurate forecasts lies in the fact that an asteroid discovered in 2013 and scientists could observe it for only three days.
According to preliminary estimates nebesspornym, asteroid diameter of about 30 meters. But even according to rough estimates, the asteroid 2013 TX68 much larger meteorite “Chelyabinsk»
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