NewsBulukumba – No one saw it coming before entering the atmosphere Earth yet he is a truck-sized space guest.
Discovery asteroid the size of a small delivery truck just a few days before passing through Earth on Thursday, February 1, 2023.
Reported from Reuters on Tuesday, although it poses no threat to humans, it’s not as predictable as the things that could actually cause damage, astronomers said.
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If headed Earththe space guest would disintegrate in the atmosphere, with only tiny fragments possibly reaching land.
But 2023 BU is in the smaller size bracket, asteroid 5 to 50 meters in diameter, which is also as large as an Olympic swimming pool.
Objects that size are difficult to detect until they wander closer to Earthcomplicating any effort to prepare for objects that could impact populated areas.
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Collision probability Earth by space rocks, which are called meteors when they enter the atmosphere, with the size range is quite low, scale according to size asteroid: rocks as high as 5 meters are expected to target Earth once a year, and 50 meter high rocks once every thousand years, according to NASA.
