The celestial body JA (7335) 1989 is classified as a potentially dangerous object, but experts say it should not be feared.
Approximately 76,000 kilometers per hour, the 1.8-kilometer-diameter celestial body is one of the largest known asteroids to approach Earth this year.
Said Ádám Boldog to MTI’s interest astronomer.
Due to the size of the celestial body, it could cause a serious disaster, but fortunately it should not be feared, as it only approaches our planet 4 million kilometers away.
– he also emphasized that he had discovered in 1989, arriving on Friday asteroid there are also much more dangerous celestial bodies that NASA is constantly monitoring.
A NASA Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are at least 140 meters in diameter with an orbit closer than 7.5 million kilometers (0.05 CSE) to Earth, also allows you to meet. As the asteroid 7335 (1989 JA) approaches our planet 4 million kilometers on Friday, it has been classified as a PHA.
Blessed Adam said that the asteroid Bennu is at the top of the list of potentially dangerous objects, although it is only about 500 meters in diameter, but because of its orbit, it has a higher chance of colliding.
The asteroid is expected to approach Earth in the late 2100s, yet the chances of colliding are still negligible, at only half a tenth of a percent.
He added.
NASA is constantly monitoring 29,000 celestial bodies that pass near Earth, but 99 percent of them are smaller than the (7335) 1989 asteroid JA.
There are currently a total of 2,223 potentially dangerous asteroids, accounting for an estimated 8 percent of all near-Earth asteroids. The number of PHAs greater than 1 kilometer is 160.
Blessed Adam said that no specific small celestial body is known today that would surely collide with our planet, but there may be a number of space objects approaching the Earth that have not yet been discovered by astronomers due to their smaller size. He recalled that such was the 2-3 meter diameter asteroid discovered by astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky in early March, which, two hours after being found, entered the atmosphere of our planet and was destroyed there.
It was the fifth known small asteroid whose collision with the Earth (entering the atmosphere) was predicted hours before the event.
We see that over the years we are now discovering less and less of the celestial bodies larger than 1 kilometer approaching the Earth, but we still find a lot of those below 100 meters. There are probably a lot of unknowns circulating in space, and we should be more afraid of them
Said the astronomer, emphasizing that it is therefore a very important area of research to search for and track the orbits of small celestial bodies near Earth, which pose a potential collision risk to our planet.
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