TRIBUN-BALI.COM- An asteroid as big as 180 meters or 1.4 times the Monument Monas will cross the Earth on January 12, 2021.
Researcher from the Center for Space Science Research – BRIN’s Aeronautics and Space Research Organization, Andi Princeg, confirmed that the asteroid named Asteroid 2013 YD48 will approach Earth next week.
“That’s right, on January 11 at 23.48 UT or January 12, 2022 at 06.48 WIB, Asteroid 2013 YD48 will pass near Earth at a distance of 5,600,000 km from Earth at a speed of 53,172 km/hour,” Andi said, Friday (1/7/2022).
Asteroid 2013 YD48
Andi explained that this asteroid belongs to the Apollo asteroid family, because the average distance (1.92 sa) is greater than the average distance from the Earth to the Sun, but the closest distance (0.775 sa) is greater than Earth’s Aphelion.
Meanwhile, the tilt of the asteroid’s orbit is 3.15 degrees with an elongation of 0.6 or 3 times that of Mercury’s orbit.
“This asteroid orbits the Sun with a period of 2,665 years or 973.6 days,” added Andi.
what Asteroid 2013 YD48 dangerous?
Andi said, although the minimum orbital intersection distance is smaller than one-twentieth of an astronomical unit (7.5 million km), however, the size of this asteroid is smaller than 300 meters.
“So it is not categorized as a potentially dangerous asteroid,” he said.
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