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Asteroid flyby: How Earth's gravity changed record-breaking space rock's path forever | Space
Early Sunday morning (Aug. 16), the car-sized 2020 QG zoomed just 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) above the Indian Ocean, making the closest known flyby by an asteroid that didn't end up slamming into our planet.
Though 2020 QG survived the encounter, its path through space was altered significantly, scientists said.
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"It's really cool to see a small asteroid come by this close, because we can see the Earth's gravity dramatically bend its trajectory," Paul Chodas, director of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said in a statement . "Our calculations show that this asteroid got turned by 45 degrees or so as it swung by our planet."
NASA confirms chance asteroid will hit Earth right before U.S.
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That seemed to be the case over the weekend as the internet reacted to the news that an asteroid has a chance of hitting the earth the day before the election.
The Center for Near Earth Objects Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory states that asteroid 2018 VP1 has a 0.41 per cent chance of entering Earth’s atmosphere on Nov. 2.
CLOSE-CALL: NASA tracks closest asteroid flyby to Earth on record
(WIS) - Talk about a close-call. NASA is calling it the closest flyby of an asteroid on record; an SUV-sized space rock flew past our planet over the weekend.
The Near Earth Asteroid, or NEA, passed 1,830 miles above the Southern Indian Ocean around midnight (12:08am EST) Sunday morning.
"It's really cool to see a small asteroid come by this close, because we can see the Earth's gravity dramatically bend its trajectory," said Paul Chodas, director of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. "Our calculations show that this asteroid got turned by 45 degrees or so as it swung by our planet."
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Near Earth Asteroid 2020: How Close Did Asteroid Come to Earth?
For reference, the distance between Las Vegas and Chicago is almost 1,800 miles. 2020 QG flew past Earth at a clip of about 8 miles per second, according to NASA.
So what would have happened if the asteroid did hit Earth? Fortunately, nothing catastrophic. It likely would have burned up in Earth's atmosphere, in a dramatic fireworks display like the breakup of an asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013. Though most of the 66-foot meteor burned up on approach, it still caused some damage: Windows shattered as the meteor plowed through Earth's atmosphere, injuring more than a thousand people in the region.
Is there an asteroid headed toward Earth? Teens from India discovered one - Deseret News
Two teenagers in India discovered an asteroid near Mars that is currently on its way toward Earth, according to multiple reports.
Vaidehi Vekariya and Radhika Lakhani, who are both 14, took part in a program with Space India and NASA, which allowed them to view images through a telescope in Hawaii. They used special software to look at images snapped by the telescope.
That's when they made a discovery — an asteroid, named HLV2514, hanging out near Mars and slowly shifting its orbit toward Earth.
Asteroid news: NASA pinpoints when 'potentially hazardous' space rock will fly past Earth |
The space agency’s CNEOS classifies Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) as comets and asteroids nudged by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into the Sun's orbits.
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Although comets were formed in the cold outer planetary system, the majority of asteroids are created inside the solar system between the orbits of red planet Mars and gas giant Jupiter.
The CNEOS database reveals the asteroid will pass by the Earth on September 1 at 3.49pm BST (10.49am ET).
Asteroid bigger than a blue whale to shoot by Earth THIS WEEKEND | Science | News | Express.co.uk
The space agency has also revealed it will be travelling at a staggering speed of 10.8 kilometres per second - or 38,880 kilometres per hour. At that speed, it could travel around the Earth in an hour.
According to NASA, asteroid 2020 OL4 is a NEO (Near Eath Object), giving NASA the perfect opportunity to study the history of the solar system.
NASA said 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.
Happening on Twitter
NASA Says an Asteroid Is Projected to Head Towards Earth a Day Before the Election https://t.co/7fBmuNc4f6 TravelLeisure (from New York, NY) Thu Aug 27 04:00:19 +0000 2020
Asteroid heading our way day before presidential election https://t.co/9GmpLC5WLs https://t.co/Z9QBjQ8C0C nypost (from New York, NY) Sat Aug 22 17:20:17 +0000 2020
Hmmmm. Asteroid heading our way day before presidential election https://t.co/U9qdOfRSsD jasoninthehouse (from Utah, USA) Sun Aug 23 04:19:10 +0000 2020
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