Suara.com – NASA has released information about three Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) that will pass Earth in the first week of January 2022, as astronomers track their movement around the Sun.
As the page slides India Today, Wednesday (5/1/2022), third asteroid it was only the first of a series of 10 similar asteroid visits throughout January.
The asteroid’s motion is being tracked by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which has not issued any warnings around this object as to whether it is potentially dangerous or not.
Among the three Earth orbits that visited in the first week of the month, 22021 YQ is the largest with a size stretching between 49-110 meters.
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Asteroids are rock fragments left over from the formation of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago.
According to JPL, an asteroid is classified as a near-Earth object when its distance from our planet is less than 1.3 times the distance from Earth to the Sun (the Earth-Sun distance is about 93 million miles).
NASA tracks more than 26,000 near-Earth asteroids and more than 1,000 of them are considered potentially dangerous.
Asteroid 2021 YQ: The asteroid will approach Earth on January 5 as it passes at a speed of 52,848 kilometers per hour. The asteroid last approached Earth in 1923.
Asteroid 2014 YE15: This Near-Earth object will dive past our planet on January 6 at a speed of 22,932 kilometers per hour, relatively slower than asteroid 2021 YQ.
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The asteroid with a width of 5.8-13 meters will next visit us in 2024.
Asteroid 2020 P1: This asteroid will glide past our planet on January 7th. The smallest of the first three asteroids to be visited in 2022, it is only 3.2-7.1 meters wide.
The other seven are asteroids 2013 YD48, 2021 BA, 7482 1994 PC1, 2022 AB, 2018 PN22, 2018 PN22 and 2021 BZ.
This is not the first time a series of asteroids have hurtled past Earth in consecutive days.
In December 2021, six Near-Earth Objects flew past the planet on the same day.
Asteroids 2021 VX7, 2021 WE1, 2021 WM2, 2021 XT1, 2021 WL2, 2021 XE will make a close approach to the planet on their way to the Sun.
The largest of the six asteroids is 2021 VX7, which has a diameter of between 31-70 meters.
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