‘Potentially Hazardous' Asteroid to Fly Past Earth Tuesday
First discovered on Aug. 9, 1994, by astronomer Robert McNaught at the Siding Spring Observatory in Coonabarabran, Australia, the asteroid made its closest approach to Earth on Jan. 17, 1933,So, what are the chances that Earth will be hit by an asteroid in the near future?
NASA says our planet is bombarded with 15,000 tons of space particles and small asteroids every year, but the vast majority of these impactors are small and just burn in the atmosphere. The last significant event in over 100 years occurred over Russia in 2013, when Earth was hit by an asteroid that was the size of a small building. However, that one disintegrated about 20 kilometers above the city of Chelyabinsk, creating an impressive fireball that was shared widely on social media.
An asteroid large enough to threaten Earth's civilization comes along only once every few million years,This article tagged under:
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