Earth Just Escaped From A 7 Meter Diameter Asteroid Collision

JAKARTA, iNews.id – A number of astronomer was surprised by the appearance asteroid 2021 KN2 is approaching earth at a speed of 9.8 kilometers per second. The space rock was about seven meters in diameter.

Reported Express.co.uk, astronomers calculate that the distance of the asteroid is closer than the Moon to Earth on May 31, 2021 night.

The asteroid approached Earth about 0.4 lunar distance (LDs). One LD is the distance between the Earth and the Moon, which is 384,000 kilometers. It can be concluded, 2021 KN2 is only 154,000 kilometers from Earth.

With a speed of over 35,000 km per hour, KN2 will be able to orbit Earth in about an hour. While the Moon takes about 29 days.

But asteroid 2021 KN2 poses no threat to Earth. Not only did it pass a safe enough distance to be non-threatening, but it was also a small space rock of about seven meters.

Launching Express.co.uk, astronomers concluded that the steroid would burn up in the atmosphere if it was given a gravitational pull towards Earth.

Editor: Andi Mohammad Ikhbal