2023-09-09 07:54:02
A newly discovered space rock regarding 2 meters (6.5 feet) across passed near Earth at a distance five times closer than the orbit of Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites. Add an announcement The small asteroid, called C9FMVU2, was spotted for the first time on Thursday morning (September 7). Just a few hours before it approached Earth. At 14:25 GMT, the space rock passed near our planet at a distance of only 4,000 km (2,500 miles) – regarding 1% of the distance between Earth and the Moon, which may seem alarming considering that GPS satellites, for comparison, orbit at an altitude of 20,200 km (12,550 miles). A recent asteroid discovered that the passer moved to a tanned 4,000 km distance from Altura, many other satellites have GPS and geostacionari. There are 2 mi per tant no representative cap amenaça…… pic.twitter.com/SsQf9UJ6ot — Joan Anton Català Amigó (@estelsiplanetes) September 8, 2023 But the European Space Agency (ESA) clarified in a post on Thursday on the X website (formerly Twitter), that the asteroid is so small that it did not pose any danger to Earth. If the asteroid had hit the planet, it would have burned up in Earth’s atmosphere, causing a spectacular fireball. It is possible that some small fragments may have reached the Earth’s surface. According to Richard Muesel, head of the Planetary Defense Division at the European Space Agency, a close pass will significantly change the asteroid’s path due to Earth’s gravity. C9FMVU2 was too small to be seen by amateur astronomers. According to the European Space Agency, astronomers have so far discovered more than 30,000 near-Earth asteroids, which are space rocks traveling through space close to Earth’s orbit. Of these, only regarding 2,300 are considered dangerous, according to NASA. In under 2⃣ hours, a tiny #asteroid???? discovered just this morning will make a #CloseApproach of Earth, 100 times closer than the Moon and well below many Earth-orbiting satellites.”It poses no risk to us, but Earth’s gravity will shape its onward trajectory forever,” – Richard… pic.twitter.com/B8eU59BJP8 — ESA Operations (@esaoperations) September 7, 2023 The asteroid must be greater than 140 meters (460 feet) across and follow an orbit that takes it within 20 lunar distances of Earth receives the official classification: “Potentially Hazardous.” However, even much smaller asteroids might cause widespread devastation if they hit the planet. For example, the shock wave caused by the impact of the only 20-meter-wide (65-foot) Chelyabinsk asteroid, which exploded in the sky over southern Russia in 2013, shattered thousands of windows and injured regarding 1,400 people with flying glass shards. That is why astronomers are working We are working hard to map the number of space rocks close to our planet to ensure that humanity will not be caught off guard by an unexpected collision. In the event of a potentially dangerous rock on a collision course with Earth, global space agencies will attempt to divert the approaching asteroid with a mission similar to NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, which successfully changed the orbit of the small asteroid’s moon Demorphos last year.RT
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