A “potentially dangerous” asteroid the size of three Eiffel Towers will “graze” the Earth on January 18th

See you on January 18. One asteroid kilometer wide is regarding to “graze” the Terre. In addition, he has been described as “potentially dangerous” over there NASA because of its size, equivalent to 2.5 Empire State Building or 3 Eiffel Towers.

Back in 2105

“1994 PC1” “should miss our planet at a ‘close approach’ distance of 0.013 astronomical units on January 18 “, according to lanouvelletribune.info who quotes Newsweek. That is regarding 1.93 million kilometers, in other words five times the Earth-Moon distance.

Discovered in Australia on August 9, 1994, his next visit to an equivalent distance from our planet should take place on January 18 … 2105!

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