Asteroid the size of a blue whale will cross Earth Friday, August 12, 2022, moving at 27 times the speed of sound

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – A asteroid enter category potentially hazardous or potentially dangerous, the size of a blue whale will glide past Earth on Friday August 12, 2022, according to NASA information.

Collect Live Science, Thursday (11/8/2022), the asteroid, named 2015 FF, is estimated to have a diameter of between 42 and 92 feet (13 and 28 meters), or about the length of the body. blue whale mature (Balaenoptera musculus). This celestial body will glide past Earth at a speed of 20,512 mph (33,012 km/h).

At its closest approach, the asteroid – traveling at about 27 times the speed of sound – will be about 2.67 million miles (4.3 million kilometers) from Earth, slightly more than eight times the average distance between Earth and the Moon. By cosmic standards, this is a small margin.

NASA marks any celestial object within 120 million miles (193 million km) of Earth as near-Earth object or near-Earth objects and fast-moving objects within 4.65 million miles (7.5 million km) are categorized as potentially hazardous (potentially dangerous).

“Once objects are tagged, astronomers monitor them closely, looking for deviations from their predicted trajectory – such as unexpected reflections from other asteroids – that could put them on a path of devastating collision with Earth.”

NASA knows the locations and orbits of some 28,000 asteroids, which it maps with the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) – an array of four telescopes capable of carrying out a complete scan of the entire night sky every 24 hours.

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