Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
Asteroid Bennu become a threat because it is estimated that hit the Earth in 2182.
However, the researchers say the probability of a collision with Earth is 1 in 1,175 (0.0037 percent) between now and the year 2300. So there is a 99.94 percent chance that Bennu will not hit Earth.
Asteroid Bennu is expected to be closest to Earth in 2135 when it passes half the distance from the moon. Earth’s gravity can change its course and put it on a collision course with Earth. Currently, the asteroid is still about 190 million miles from Earth.
Davide Farnocchia, a researcher and principal investigator of Asteroid Bennu from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, said that the threat of Bennu’s asteroid path is now being monitored directly by NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft.
“So there’s no particular reason to worry (and) we have time to continue tracking (this) asteroid,” Farnocchia said.
This latest projection is the result of new data provided by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. This plane previously landed at Bennu in 2018. Scientists use that information to calculate the threat Asteroid Bennu and other celestial objects pose to Earth.
Researchers say Bennu could accelerate as its trajectory gets closer to the Sun. Then, the thing that could make Bennu’s trajectory turn and hit Earth, if this asteroid is attracted by a gravitational keyhole as it passes between the Moon and Earth.
What is Bennu?
Bennu is basically an ‘asteroid debris pile’ (rubble pile) which is shaped like a spinning top. This asteroid is called a pile because this asteroid consists of a collection of large and small pieces of debris that coalesce due to gravity, not a solid solid rock. NASA. This asteroid is wider than the height of the Empire State Building, and was discovered in 1999.
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