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Gempar bumi:Asteroid sebesar lori bakal memasuki atmosfera bumi,3600 km dari daratan,lebih dekat dari satelit.Objek paling dekat pernah direkod kata NASA
An asteroid estimated to be the size of a delivery truck is expected to fly by Earth on Thursday night. It’s one of the closest approaches
recorded.
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The asteroid, dubbed 2023 BU and about the size of a box truck, has no risk of hitting Earth, NASA said Wednesday. It’s expected to zip 2,200 miles above the southern tip of South America, approximately 10 times closer than some communication satellites.
An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will whip past Earth on Thursday night, one of the closest such encounters ever recorded.
Nasa insists it will be a near miss with no chance of the asteroid hitting Earth.
Nasa said Wednesday that this newly discovered asteroid will zoom 3,600km (2,200 miles) above the southern tip of South America. That’s 10 times closer than the bevy of communication satellites circling overhead.
The closest approach will occur at 7.27pm EST (8.37am Hong Kong time Friday).
Even if the space rock came a lot closer, scientists said most of it would burn up in the atmosphere, with some of the bigger pieces possibly falling as meteorites.
Nasa’s impact hazard assessment system, called Scout, quickly ruled out a strike, said its developer, Davide Farnocchia, an engineer at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,
“But despite the very few observations, it was nonetheless able to predict that the asteroid would make an extraordinarily close approach with Earth,” Farnocchia said in a statement. “In fact, this is one of the closest approaches by a known near-Earth object ever recorded.”
Discovered Saturday, the asteroid known as 2023 BU is believed to be between 3.5 metres (11 feet) and 8.5 metres (28 feet) cross.
It was first spotted by the same amateur astronomer in Crimea, Gennady Borisov, who discovered an interstellar comet in 2019. Within a few days, dozens of observations were made by astronomers around the world, allowing them to refine the asteroid’s orbit.
The asteroid’s path drastically will be altered by Earth’s gravity once it zips by. Instead of circling the sun every 359 days, it will move into an oval orbit lasting 425 days, according to Nasa
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