A "potentially dangerous" asteroid more than twice the size of the Empire State Building will approach Earth next week, An asteroid larger than the tallest building in the world is set to face Earth next week. NASA predicts that asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) will fly on January 18.
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| A "potentially dangerous" asteroid more than twice the size of the Empire State Building will approach Earth next week |
The asteroid is about 1 km or 3,280 feet long, twice as high as the Empire State Building in New York, and 1,454 feet from the base to the antenna, hundreds of feet larger than Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest building in the world. It has become. 2,716.5 feet.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory believes that space agencies could come within 1,231,184 miles from Earth. Since January 17, 1933, when NASA estimated that it came within 700,000 miles of the planet, it will be the closest asteroid to Earth.
According to NASA, the asteroid is estimated to cross Earth again in July this year, but at a much greater distance. The next expected flight near Earth is January 18, 2105, estimated to reach within 1,445,804 miles.
The space agency has been observing this particular asteroid since its discovery in August 1994, classifying it as an Apollo asteroid, which means that its orbit intersects the Earth's orbit and its axis is slightly larger. According to NASA, it is classified as "potentially dangerous" because of its potential threat to the planet.
There are more than one million known asteroids, and it is not uncommon for many to fly over the Earth. Most of them don't really matter. For example, this Wednesday and Thursday, according to NASA, there are at least five asteroids zoomed by planets, including bus sizes and three house sizes.
However, according to Nancy Shabot, chief planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, there are about 25,000 asteroids at least 500 feet wide near the Earth that are "destructive" when they collide with the Earth. There is a possibility of becoming. "For example, we're not talking about global extinction, we're talking about the devastation of an area that could wipe out cities and even small states," he said earlier. "So that's a real concern. It's a real threat."
And if an asteroid emergency like Netflix's "Do n't Look Up" happens in the future, NASA is already working on a solution. In November, we launched a probe to collide with a small asteroid next fall as part of a test to see if the asteroid needs to be shut down in the future if it appears to be in a catastrophic collision. did. planet. The Binary Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) collides with a 525-foot wide object called Dimorphos at a speed of 15,000 mph.
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