In the coming hours, the attention of astronomy lovers will turn towards the sky to see an asteroid that may be the size of the Great Pyramid in Giza, passing by the planet Earth at a close distance, this week.
When is the asteroid approaching Earth?
expected to arrive asteroid Which NASA called “2022 GU6”, near Earth at a distance of 750,000 miles, tomorrow morning, Sunday, according to the American newspaper “New York Post”.
The newspaper “Newsweek” cited NASA’s calculations conducted by the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, according to what the scientists reported, that although the asteroid’s close distance, but there are no risks to it. planet earthsince there is no chance of collision.
The asteroid will pass by our planet, three times the normal average distance between Earth and the Moon, at a speed of regarding 18,000 miles per hour, which is 20 times the speed of sound and nine times the speed of a gun bullet.
The data showed that the diameter of the asteroid ranged between 216 feet and 492 feet, making it larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza, which is 415 feet high. NASA scientists have also identified more than 29,000 near-Earth objects, most of which are small asteroids, including more than a hundred comets.
Some near-Earth objects are classified as dangerous
It is worth noting that NEOs with a diameter of more than 460 feet and flying within 4.6 million miles of Earth are classified as dangerous, but experts say that these objects do not have any chance of colliding with Earth over the next 100 years.