Possibly the largest asteroid, which scientists estimate will approach Earth this year, will fly over our planet on Sunday (March 21).
The US space agency NASA announced that the celestial body named “2001 FO32” with a diameter of several hundred meters, will then approach Earth to about two million kilometers. This is more than five times the distance from Earth to the Moon.
The There is no risk of collision – neither now nor in the future. “We know the 2001 FO32 orbit around the sun very well,” said Paul Chodas of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies in California. “We’ve been tracking it since it was discovered 20 years ago.” “It is impossible for the asteroid to approach Earth more than two million kilometers.”
The “2001 FO32”, which orbits the sun once every 810 days, will fly over the Earth at about 124,000 kilometers per hour – and it won’t approach it again until 2052 after that. The NASA scientists want to seize the opportunity while flyingTo closely study the asteroid.
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Last year, astronomers estimated that the asteroid Apophis, which has a size of 370 meters (99942), changed its course by 170 meters per year. This could make asteroid 2068 Fly close to the ground. (dpa, tsp)
