An asteroid will come out close to the Earth. Tomorrow, Thursday. Indian time around 5:15 pm. It looks like a small school bus.
The US space agency NASA gave this news on Wednesday. When approached, the asteroid will be only 13,000 miles or 22,000 kilometers above the earth's surface. It has been named '2020 SW'. The asteroid was first discovered by NASA's Caitlin Sky Survey Observatory in Arizona in September last year.
Geostationary satellites in different orbits of the earth are about 22,000 miles or 36,000 kilometers above the earth's surface. As a result, NASA estimates that the asteroid will be out of Earth tomorrow, where Earth's satellites are located, about half its height from Earth's surface.
However, NASA has also stated that there is no possibility of hitting the Earth in the direction of the asteroid. Even if we had it, we would not have suffered any loss as it is very small in size. When it collides with our atmosphere, it burns like a bright meteor. A fireball. As a result, meteor showers could happen later.
Examining the asteroid's luminosity so far, NASA said the 2020 SW asteroid would be about 15 to 30 feet wide or 5 to 10 meters wide. Like a small school bus.
Scientists say the asteroid did not come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Came from many parts of the world. Hence their name ‘Near-Earth Object’ or ‘NEO’.
Paul Kodas, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, said: "There are plenty of such small asteroids around the Earth. These are called near-earth objects. While orbiting in its own orbit, many asteroids come close to the Earth several times a year from the nebula. One or two of them collide with our atmosphere every year. "
The asteroid will be over the southeastern Pacific Ocean
when it comes closest to Earth around 5:15 pm Indian time on Thursday, NASA
said. The asteroid will return to Earth after 21 years. In 2041. But then the
earth will not come so close.
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