A technical report from Space stated that there is an asteroid that will approach Earth next Thursday, December 15, 2022, and amateur astronomers were challenged to find out what the European Space Agency (ESA) calls a “Christmas asteroid.”
The asteroid, which has been identified since 2015 RN35, will arrive at 3:12 a.m. EST on its closest approach to Earth and will pass within 430,000 miles (686,000 km), which is roughly the distance to the Moon and back.
The European Space Agency (ESA) denied discovering the Christmas asteroid and launched the new asteroid tool to find it, because it gives astronomers the opportunity to monitor it, and astronomers believe that 2015 RN35 will pass Earth safely. Lack of information they know regarding the asteroid.
The asteroid, which is estimated to be between 200 and 460 feet in size, will have a height of 60 to 140 meters, which makes it approximately the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza, and it will be visible on Monday, December 19, and the size of visible telescopes is regarding 14, similar to Pluto, which means that it should only be seen.
And the European Space Agency wrote in its statement: “This asteroid is not well known, and we do not know what it is made of, its actual size, whether it rotates on its side, or we know very well its movement.”
