A large asteroid is approaching Earth and will fly past it on March 4. On February 12, Roscosmos announced this in its Telegram channel.
Designated 138971 (2001 CB21), the object is approximately 1.3 km in diameter, four times the size of the Eiffel Tower. Roskosmos also published an animation of the passage of a celestial body.
“Scientists classify it as “potentially dangerous”, but it will not collide with the Earth, because. will fly from it at a distance of more than 4.8 million km, which is 10 times greater than the distance between the Moon and our planet, ”the state corporation warned.
The animation was made by IPM them. M.V. Keldysh RAS using a 40-cm telescope in Mult (Altai).
In early February, NASA experts reported that the flight speed of this asteroid would be over 43,130 km/h.
On January 19, Roskosmos 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).
Source: IZ
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