An exciting opportunity to see the giant silver asteroid shining in the sky today, when the asteroid “Juno 3” moves towards the sun, it will be in the middle of the night, the best time to see the asteroid resident in Mr. The main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid named following the Roman goddess will appear in the constellation Aquarius, and remain above the horizon most of the night, according to Space.
Juno 3 will be visible over New York from 9:06 p.m. EDT, when it rises 21 degrees above the southeast horizon, until 4:35 a.m. EDT on September 8, when it sinks toward the southwest horizon.
It will also be from its closest point to Earth, passing regarding 120 million miles from our planet, which means that the asteroid will be first for astronomers as it will reach regarding 7.8.
However, Juno 3 is still invisible to the naked eye, so its detection requires a telescope or binoculars..
Juno was the third asteroid to be discovered when it was first observed by German astronomer Karl Harding in September 1804. It is one of the largest asteroids in the main asteroid belt and is regarding 145 miles wide, regarding fifteen times the diameter of the Moon.
Juno 3 has the irregular shape and unusually high surface reflection of a rocky asteroid, giving it a distinctive silvery glow, but the asteroid’s surface is tainted with craters from collisions with other, smaller space rocks..
These impacts often result in fragments of Juno 3. The asteroid is believed to be responsible for many of the meteorites that rain on Earth, according to NASA. This is partly due to the fact that the silicates that make up Juno are strong enough to survive a journey through our planet’s atmosphere..
Juno orbits the sun in a very “flat” elliptical circle that completes a full orbit once every 4.4 Earth years, and the asteroid travels at an average speed of regarding 40,000 miles per hour. This is regarding 20 times faster than a bullet fired from a rifle or 30 times faster than an airplane.”Lockheed Martin F-16“
