Another huge asteroid will shoot past the Earth which has been listed as potentially hazardous asteroid. Reportedly, it will be closer than the moon is to the Earth. Moreover, the size of the asteroid is as big as Edinburgh’s Tron Kirk. Read on to know about the potential threats it may hold for the Earth.
The American space agency has said that the heft asteroid will fly by closer to the Earth than the Moon. According to a media portal, the speed at which the 2011 ES4 space rock will pass by the Earth is estimated to be at 18,253 mph. According to scientists, the space rock is around 49 metres. The size of the rock is almost as big as Edinburgh’s Tron Kirk, which is one of the tallest buildings in the capital and is 52 metres high.
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Comet Neowise and 'asteroid approaching Earth' are signs of APOCALYPSE, crackpot
A NUTTY preacher has claimed that recent sightings of a bright comet in the night sky suggest the apocalypse is upon us.
In a rambling 11-minute video posted on Saturday, Begley claimed the asteroid, named 2011 ES4 by Nasa, should be worrying people.
Nasa has confirmed ES4 will perform a close flyby on September 1, but says the space rock will safely pass at a distance of roughly 76,000 miles.
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"Nasa says that a potentially hazardous asteroid is going to skim past way closer to the Earth than the Moon is."
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NASA: 'Potentially Hazardous' Asteroid to Fly-by Earth Soon at a Much Closer Distance
NASA has spotted an asteroid that will pass by the Earth at a closer distance than the moon by September.
As reported by UNILAD , the 2011 ES4 asteroid is about 22 meters to 49 meters in diameter. It will fly past the Earth at 18,253 miles per hour, which is about the standard speed for an asteroid.
While the size and speed may be somewhat normal, this asteroid will be flying by closer to the Earth than the distance of the moon.
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The biggest asteroid of 2020 flew past earth last month and scientists did not even know about it until two days later .
This is however not the first time scientists have discovered an asteroid after it has passed earth. On June 5, asteroid 2020 LD measuring nearly 100 metres in diameter, travelling at a speed of 60,826 miles per hour, came even closer to the earth than the moon.
According to the European Space Agency (ESA), the space rock was 0.8 lunar distances away from earth. That means, if the moon is 384,317 km away from earth, asteroid 2020 LD was 307,454 km away when it flew by. It wasn't detected until two days later.
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An asteroid larger than a football field zoomed past the Earth at a distance closer than our moon in early June, and astronomers didn’t know about it until it had already passed.
The asteroid is the largest to pass near the planet in nine years, and it would have been big and fast enough to deliver a nuclear-sized explosion if it had hit Earth, according to Purdue University’s impact predictor .
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NASA data shows the asteroid, known as 2020LD, was discovered on June 7 — two days after it whizzed between the Earth and the moon. The asteroid was between 89 and 200 metres wide and passed within 306,000 kilometres of the planet, according to NASA tracking data. That’s about 80 per cent of the distance to the moon.
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Asteroid 2011 ES4 as big as Edinburgh's Tron Kirk will pass by the Earth soon: NASA https://t.co/olkDeUIUO9 republic (from Mumbai, India) Mon Jul 13 14:05:58 +0000 2020
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