The footage of the passage of a potentially dangerous asteroid during its closest approach to the Earth was published by the state corporation Roscosmos in its Telegram channel on January 19.
Asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) was photographed by the telescope of the Institute of Applied Mathematics (IPM) named after M.V. Keldysh RAS ORI-22 (Castelgrande, Italy). At 00:51 Moscow time on January 19, it passed at a distance of about 2 million km from the Earth. Roscosmos clarified that this is almost five times further than the moon.
The fact that the asteroid 1994 PC1 is approaching the Earth was reported at the IPM a day earlier. It was clarified that the asteroid was seen by the observer Sergei Shmalts using the ORI-22 telescope in Castelgrande in Italy on the night of January 17th.
On January 2, the All-Russian Research Institute for Civil Defense and Emergency Situations (VNII GOChS) of the Russian Emergencies Ministry reported that the asteroid Apophis with a diameter of 400 m will fly up to the Earth at the distance of orbits of geostationary satellites on April 13, 2029. In turn, Roskosmos announced a low probability of a collision of the asteroid Apophis with the Earth.
Asteroid 1994 PC1, about 1 km in size, was discovered in 1994 by the Siding Spring Observatory. It is considered potentially dangerous because it crosses the Earth’s orbit. The asteroid makes one revolution around the Sun in 572 days.
Source: IZ
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