2024-04-27 22:02:12
The Seal Astronomical Observatory has confirmed the passage of an asteroid very close to Earth, its initial number (A1163wo) the day before yesterday at 4:00 p.m. UAE time. It was monitored by the Atlas Observatory (ATLAS), which is a robot with a. with a diameter of 50 cm, and one of its objectives is to discover asteroids that may pose a danger to Earth, it is a project funded by NASA and managed by the University of Arizona in the United States -United, and located in the State of Hawaii. in the far west of the United States.
Engineer Muhammad Shawkat Odeh, director of the Abu Dhabi International Astronomy Center, said: “After announcing the discovery, the Al Khatam Astronomical Observatory aimed its main telescope with a diameter of 35 cm towards the location of the asteroid to make record observations of it. to refine its orbit and increase the precision of its location, and this coincided with the fact that another observatory in Hungary was carrying out the same mission. After making the observations, the results were sent to the International Astronomical Union, and the orbit was immediately revised along with the accuracy of. The determination of the asteroid’s location has increased to just 0.0012 degrees. Its trajectory could be precisely determined, and it was found that its diameter was 25 meters and that it passed close to the Earth on the morning of Friday April 26 at 1:40 a.m. Average time, and it was at a distance less than half the distance of the Moon from the Earth, and more precisely, it passed only 163,000 km from the Earth.
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