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Everything you need to know about the Christmas asteroid after its discovery by scientists

A technical report from space has claimed that there is an asteroid approaching Earth next Thursday, December 15, 2022, and amateur astronomers have been challenged to discover what the European Space Agency (ESA) is calling a ‘Christmas asteroid’. “.

The asteroid, which was identified by 2015 RN35, will arrive at 3:12 am EST on its closest approach to Earth and pass within 430,000 miles (686,000 km), which is roughly the distance to the Moon and back.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has denied having discovered the Christmas asteroid and has launched the new asteroid instrument to find it, because it gives astronomers the opportunity to monitor it, and astronomers believe that 2015 RN35 will pass the Earth in safety. Lack of information they know about the asteroid.

The asteroid, estimated to be between 200 and 460 feet in size, will have a height of between 60 and 140 meters, making it approximately the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza, and will be visible on Monday, December 19, and the size of visible telescopes is about 14, similar to Pluto, which means that it should only be seen.

And the European Space Agency wrote in its statement: “This asteroid is not very well known, and we don’t know what it is made of, its real size, if it rotates on its side or if we know its movement very well.”

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