A asteroid as large as the tallest skyscraper in the world is said to be crossing the Earth. According to NASA, this asteroid has potential danger.
The asteroid, named 2022 RM4, is estimated to be between 1,083 and 2,428 feet (330 and 740 meters) in diameter. This height is just below the height of Burj Khalifa, in Dubai. The Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world at 2,716 feet (828m).
On the Live Science website, the asteroid is said to be speeding past Earth at a speed of approximately 52,500 mph (84,500 km / h), which is about 68 times the speed of sound.
Are these asteroids dangerous?
Its closest location will be November 1, 2022. At that time, the asteroid will be located approximately 2.3 million kilometers from Earth. This distance is six times the average distance between the Earth and the Moon. By cosmic standards, this is a very subtle distance.
NASA marks any space object within 120 million miles (193 million km) of Earth as a “near-Earth object” and classifies any large object within 4.65 million miles (7.5 million km) of Earth. as “potentially dangerous”.
Once reported, potential threats will be closely observed by astronomers. They study with radar for any signs of trajectory deviations they might spot asteroid on a collision course with Earth.
Using ATLAS, an array of four telescopes capable of scanning the entire night sky every 24 hours, NASA estimated the trajectories of all near-Earth objects by the end of the century.
From the results of this analysis, the good news is that Earth will not be in danger of an asteroid collision for at least the next 100 years.
The Earth has yet to be vigilant
Although most near-Earth objects are harmless, there have been many devastating asteroid impacts recently. For example, in March 2021, a bowling ball-sized meteor exploded in Vermont, United States, with a force of 440 pounds (200 kilograms) of TNT.
Then, in 2013, a meteor exploded in the atmosphere above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk produced an explosion roughly equivalent to 400-500 kilotons of TNT, or 26 to 33 times the energy released by the Hiroshima bomb. During the 2013 explosion, fireballs rained down on the city and its surroundings, damaging buildings, breaking windows and injuring about 1,500 people.
To overcome this, space systems in various parts of the world devise defense strategies for the Earth. On September 26, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft deflected the harmless asteroid Dimorphos causing it to crash off course, changing the asteroid’s orbit by 32 minutes in the first test of planet Earth’s defense system.
China also suggested the same in the early planning stages of the asteroid diversion mission. Ramming 23 Long March 5 rockets into asteroid Bennu, which will oscillate within 4.6 million miles (7.4 million km) of Earth’s orbit between 2175 and 2199. China hopes to deflect asteroid from the destruction of the Earth.
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