KLIKMATARAM – An unpleasant news came from the Space Agency United States of America atau National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Quoted from Pikiran-Rakyat.com, Sunday, December 25, 2021, the end of this year and the week of the beginning of the coming new year, two asteroid will approach Earth and has the potential to be quite dangerous. Namely on December 29, 2021 and January 6, 2022.
NASA explained on January 6, 2022, a asteroid the size of a bus will pass by Earth at a distance of about 7,400,000 km.
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That’s Asteroid 2014 YE15 – which was first discovered in 2014, and will be approaching again Earth.
Then on December 29, 2021, asteroid with a width of about 149 meters will also approach Earth with a distance of 3,540,000 km. The asteroid appeared in a relatively close distance to Earth every few days.
NASA have been monitoring the celestial body regularly, and have updated the data for the next five asteroids that are also approaching Earth.
It was also explained that the incident could not be ignored. Because asteroid even a small amount can cause problems.
For example in 2013, a asteroid 20 meters wide exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, releasing the same energy as about 26 to 33 atomic bomb explosions.
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