This Saturday, June 6, an asteroid considered potentially dangerous will pass very close to our planet. This has been warned by NASA in the last hours after receiving the alert that asteroid Aton 163348 (2002 NN4) will arrive after the lunar eclipse.
When does it reach Earth?
The arrival of this dangerous asteroid It is scheduled for the morning of Saturday 6 to Sunday 7, around 5 in the morning. It should be noted that this type of body tends, as a general rule, to traverse the orbit of our planet, although in this case it is not known whether it will eventually do so.
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What size it has?
Precisely in this detail lies the danger that NASA has alerted in recent hours. The size of Aton 163348 (2002 NN4) is about 735 meters in diameter, which is equivalent to the size of about seven football fields together and that, in the event of an impact, it could cause a real catastrophe.
What danger does it pose?
Although the world population does not take it as such, the truth is that a NASA alert in itself must be taken seriously. The danger of an asteroid of this magnitude approaching Earth has a lot to do with its dimensions and the speed at which it will do so.
At a speed of about 11 kilometers per second, not by the hour, This asteroid is slated to approach our planet at a distance of about 5 million kilometers. It may be too far away to put the planet at risk, but the truth is that astronomy experts consider this type of distance to be “too close” to put Earth at risk.
During the last days, a larger moon can be seen in our skies, and with the COVID-19 crisis still present in our day to day, in the next few hours it is possible to see a new element happening in just a few seconds through the sky, the Aton 2020 NN4.
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