Astronomers have dubbed the approaching object Asteroid 2009 JF1, after its date of discovery 10 years ago.
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NASA said: “Some asteroids and comets follow orbital paths that take them much closer to the Sun and therefore Earth – than usual.
“If a comet’s or asteroid’s approach brings it to within 1.3 astronomical units of the Sun, we call it a Near-Earth object.”
On this scale, the space rock is comparable in size to the London Eye and the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
Many things are taking place:
Asteroid shock: NASA spot space rock only 10 days ago which is due to skim earth tomorrow |
One LD is the average distance between the Earth and the Moon, or 384,400 km – so 2019 UG11 will come within 192,000 kilometres of our planet on October 29.
While this may seem like a sizeable distance, it is close enough for NASA to sit up and take notice and class it as a Near Earth Object (NEO) and allow the space agency to study the history of our solar system.
NASA set on its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) website: “NEOs are comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits that allow them to enter the Earth’s neighbourhood.
Japan's Asteroid Probe Is Finally Returning to Earth With Its Precious Cargo
The Japanese space agency has declared an end to the exploratory phase of the Hayabusa2 mission. Beginning tomorrow, the overachieving spacecraft will leave Ryugu and head back to Earth, bringing—hopefully—its asteroid samples along with it.
After a year and a half of exploratory work around the Ryugu asteroid, the time has finally come for JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft to return home.
Thankfully, the year-long journey home is much shorter than the 3.5 years it took for Hayabusa2 to reach the asteroid. Earth and Ryugu are now closer together along their respective orbital paths compared to 2014, when the asteroid was nearly 300 million kilometers (186 million miles) from Earth.
Fake Asteroid Impact Meme By The Daily Express Daily Express - Invented Dates And Probabilites
The Daily Express run this fake meme on many of their fake asteroid stories. It is riddled with errors and outright lies. The red top tabloid papers in the UK are well known for just making stuff up.
The most famous red top tabloid story which ran in The Sun, another similar paper here. They made up the story that Freddie Starr, a comedian ate a hamster in a sandwich. He never ate any hamster.
We get so many people scared of asteroids as a result of the fake news about them in the Daily Express. They say, a dozen times a year or more, that NASA has issued an asteroid impact warning about some random harmless asteroid. I thought maybe showing this Daily Express meme with all its mistakes next to a typical Daily Express story might help readers from other countries understand what kind of a paper they are reading here.
Not to change the topic here:
Asteroid horror: Apocalyptic fears - rock bigger than Wembley Stadium set for Earth fly-by |
The 2019 UR2 is expected to come closest to Earth next Monday, November 18, whisking within 0.046 astronomical units (4,275,967 miles) above our home planet.
It will skim past at a startling speed of 48,240 kilometres per hour (29,974 miles per hour), or around 38 times the speed of sound.
2019 UR2’s projected trajectory shows there is hardly any chance of a collision within the next few centuries – which is quite good.
"Potentially Hazardous" Asteroid Is Headed For Your Telescope - Sky & Telescope
A potentially hazardous asteroid makes a flyby of Earth this Friday, offering amateurs with modest telescopes a chance to ride along.
The sharp point of light is asteroid 162082 (1998 HL1) photographed on October 19th when it was 8.5 million kilometers from Earth.
Gianluca Masi
162082 (1998 HL1) , a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) nearly twice as wide as the Empire State Building is tall, will swing just 16.2 lunar distances from Earth around 17:00 UT on Friday, October 25th. While a "potentially hazardous" designation means that the asteroid's orbit can cross Earth's, there's no need to bite your fingernails this time around, as the object will miss Earth by a good 6.2 million kilometers (4 million miles).
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Asteroid alert: Nasa tracks 'hazardous' earth skimming Asteroid 1998 – but will it return?
The 700-metre rock – dubbed Asteroid 1998 HL1 - will speed past the earth between 25-28 October. The asteroid is classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA). It was first discovered by astronomers at the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project at Socorro, New Mexico, in 1998.
But diagrams released by NASA revealed exactly how relatively close of a “near miss” it will be.
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The Apollo asteroid’s closest approach this year will be roughly 16 times the distance to the moon.
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After months grappling with the rugged reality of asteroid Bennu's surface, the team leading NASA's first asteroid… https://t.co/HLdzQ6QEpu NASAGoddard (from Greenbelt, MD USA) Tue Nov 12 20:34:59 +0000 2019
Despite fear-mongering headlines, NASA did not announce that Earth is in danger of being hit by an asteroid around… https://t.co/GMieJu5CZJ snopes Mon Nov 11 18:03:08 +0000 2019
NASA weighs in: Meteor over St. Louis Monday was a basketball-sized piece of asteroid https://t.co/TZvCupKXbp https://t.co/WyFoZ5Hxtg stltoday (from St. Louis, Mo.) Wed Nov 13 00:24:33 +0000 2019
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