A 150m asteroid called 2007 UY1 will approach Earth on February 8th. This follows from data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
It is noted that the celestial body will be at a distance of just over 5 million km from the planet, which is approximately 14 distances from the Earth to the Moon.
The scientists also clarified that 2007 UY1 belongs to the asteroids of the Aten group, that is, its orbit crosses the earth from the inside.
2007 UY1 was first discovered in 2007. The asteroid is not considered dangerous. According to current calculations, the theoretical likelihood that one day it could collide with the Earth is extremely small.
On February 2, NASA experts reported that an asteroid called 138971 (2001 CB21) will fly relatively close to Earth in early March. The diameter of the celestial body is estimated at about 1.3 km feet, which is four times the height of the Eiffel Tower. Its flight speed will be over 43,130 km/h.
At the same time, scientists say that although the asteroid is classified by NASA’s Center for the Study of Near-Earth Objects (CNEOS) as “potentially dangerous”, it is unlikely to collide with our planet in the foreseeable future.
Earlier, on January 19, the state corporation Roscosmos published footage of the passage of a potentially dangerous asteroid during its closest approach to the Earth.
Asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) photographed by the telescope of the Institute of Applied Mathematics (IPM) named after. M.V. Keldysh RAS ORI-22 (Castelgrande, Italy). At 0:51 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.
Source: IZ
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