Thursday, 28 April 2022 – 13:08 WIB
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VIVA – A asteroid a potentially dangerous giant will slide past Earthaccording to the United States Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA.
Asteroid 2008 AG33 It has a diameter between 1150-2,560 feet (350-780 meters) and will penetrate Earth’s orbit at a speed of 23,300 mph (37,400 km/h).
Fortunately, the asteroid is expected to glide past Earth without risk of impact, as quoted from the site Science AlertThursday, April 28, 2022.
At its closest point, an asteroid traveling at more than 30 times the speed of sound will be within about 2 million miles (3.2 million kilometers) from Earth, which is roughly eight times the average distance between Earth and the Moon.
This may sound like a huge gap, but by cosmic standards, it’s actually only a stone’s throw away.
Asteroid 2008 AG33 will pass Earth exactly on Thursday today at 22:46 ET or Friday, April 29, 2022 at 09:46 WIB, a few days before Hari Raya Eid Al-Fitr 1 Syawal 1443 Hijri.
NASA marks any space object within 120 million miles (193 million km) of Earth as near-Earth and fast-moving objects within 4.65 million miles (7.5 million km) as potentially hazardous.
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