Astronomers announced Saturday that there is a one in 500 chance that a recently discovered celestial object may be a small asteroid. The object will collide with the Earth in 2030.
Astronomers announced Saturday that there is a one in 500 chance that a recently discovered celestial object may be a small asteroid. The object will collide with the Earth in 2030.
The size of the bone is unknown," stated in a message published by NASA on Saturday. Based on the size of other asteroids that move relatively close to Earth, it is estimated to be between 30 and 70 meters in size. A 30 meter asteroid is no cause for concern, however, an impact by a 70 meter asteroid would cause a disaster on a global scale.
An international team of experts on behalf of the International Astronomical Union, which analyzed the observations, concluded that "the most likely thing is that future observations will show with certainty that the object will not hit the Earth at all. The unusual nature of the bone's trajectory suggests that it may simply be a booster rocket, which increases the speed of missiles", and remains from one of the spacecraft launched in the XNUMXs.
The object, known as G344S-2000, was discovered on September 29 in a telescope observation in Hawaii.
Additional observations will be required to clarify its nature, size and answer the question of whether it may indeed collide with Earth. It is now moving at a distance of 13.4 million kilometers from Earth, and will return to our environment only in about thirty years.
You can remove the shields - the asteroid will miss the Earth on the 11th
Once the distance to the moon
By Avi Blizovsky
After a re-examination of all the data on the asteroid discovered using
The automatic scanner
Catalina Sky Survey on May 17 and which Tuesday was declared as being in danger
that will hit the Earth in 2030, the people of the Near Objects Project announced
NASA and the International Astronomical Union's NEO Land because it is not
dangerous.
This is according to an analysis of photographs of the bone 2000 SG344 taken at the center
Project NEO in Pasadena.
As you may remember, on November 3, Karl Hagenrotter of the Catalina Observatory in Tucson conducted
Arizona calculations on several photographs of the object in the observatory archive.
These initial observations have been improved in recent days and now it appears that it is possible
remove from the joint the danger of damaging that bone.
With the help of the new data, it is possible to say that the closest distance that the object
It will reach it 11 times the distance to the moon and it will happen on September 23, 2030
These results are also accepted by Andrea Millani from the University of Pisa
in Italy.
The previous announcement about the possibility of a collision with the Earth in 2030 was made
In the hands of an inspection team of the World Astronomical Union founded at the convention
in Turin, Italy. In the first use of this procedure, the team concluded
unanimously, then publish the results within 72 hours.
While the new calculations of the bone trajectory excluded the impact from the calculation
In 2030, they increased the possibility of damage in the following years.
For example, for September 16 - 2071, they give this option a chance of 1
tame.
In any case, the calculations show that the object is an asteroid type. they denied
the possibility that this is a stage of an Apollo-era rocket.
Additional observations of the bone will be possible in the coming months, and they
will be able to assist in refining the calculations and conclusions.
