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While this distance is no cause for concern, 1998 OR2 will continue on its 3.7-year orbit around the sun, venturing into the asteroid belt beyond Mars and circling back inside Earth’s orbit with each lap. Legal Statement. It will approach the planet from a distance of 0.03193 astronomical units, which is equivalent to almost 3 million miles.

It is a fact, the Asteroid (space rock) named 52768 (1998 OR2) with estimated diameter (1.8 km – 4.1 km) will approach close to Earth on 29th April 2020. So far, in fact, that it cannot be seen with the naked eye or a small telescope, the European Space Agency tweeted. What NASA Said About On April 29, 2020 On March 4, USA, the US Space Research Agency NASA NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) officially announced that it would pass near Asteroid Asteroid Earth at 5.45 am local time on April 29. None are even remotely likely to hit the planet in the next several centuries. ©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. Earth will almost certainly confront a space rock large enough to obliterate a city, or worse, at some point in its future. "This shows that our efforts to find near-Earth objects are paying off.". “If it wasn’t a binary, it would be basically impossible to measure with high precision,” says Megan Bruck Syal of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who uses a mix of lab tests and supercomputers to model asteroid impacts. ”This is a remarkable opportunity to test the effectiveness of the kinetic impactor technology on a real asteroid.”. That’s over 16 times the average distance between our planet and the moon. Getty For those who don’t have access to a telescope, the Virtual Telescope Project in Italy will provide an online viewing of the asteroid on April 28. “Our most important task is finding them and getting a fuller catalog of everything that’s out there, so we don’t get surprised.”. At that time, though, it’ll be much farther away, about 12 million miles from the planet. A large asteroid is set to pass near Earth in April 2020, but there’s no risk that it will hit our planet. “These smaller ones—the sub-global sizes that are capable of causing regional problems—we still have a lot of work to do,” Mainzer says. The Giant ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid comparable in size to Mount Everest will fly safely by Earth in April end 2020. महाविनाश का काउंटडा कोरोनो वायरस के बाद क्या हो जाएगा 29 अप्रैल 2020 को धरती का विनाश?? Kinetic impactors might successfully redirect an asteroid as small as Didymoon, but what about 1998 OR2? A one-and-a-half-mile-wide asteroid is making a close — but safe — approach to Earth on Wednesday, and amateur astronomers will be able to watch via a livestream from the comfort of their homes.

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