A space rock known as 2020 YE5 is currently making its way past Mars. The asteroid is heading out past the Sun before completing another orbit. However, as it does, the 55 metres peace rock will swing close to Earth, NASA has revealed.
At 23 metres long, the asteroid is the size of a blue whale, highlighting the sheer size of the space rock.
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NASA observations reveal it will come so close to Earth that it will be roughly as near as the Moon is.
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Giant asteroid to zip past Earth on Christmas Day
The space rock, 501647 (2014 SD224), is on the US space agency’s “Close Approach” list and could be up to 689 feet wide.
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Any fast-moving space object that comes within around 4.65 million miles is considered “potentially hazardous” by cautious space organizations.
According to NASA’s Close Approach table , a much smaller asteroid called 2020 XY will also fly past much earlier in the day.
Asteroid chips that look like charcoal sent back to Earth by Japanese space
Tokyo — They resemble small fragments of charcoal, but the soil samples collected from an asteroid and returned to Earth by a Japanese spacecraft were hardly disappointing.
The samples Japanese space officials described Thursday are as big as 0.4 inch and rock hard, not breaking when picked up or poured into another container. Smaller black, sandy granules the spacecraft collected and returned separately were described last week.
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft got the two sets of samples last year from two locations on the asteroid Ryugu, more than 190 million miles from Earth. It dropped them from space onto a target in the Australian Outback, and the samples were brought to Japan in early December.
Asteroid 2021 Passing Earth Today: Two asteroids as big as Eiffel Tower to zoom past Earth today
We are just six days into 2021 and there are several asteroids approaching Earth already. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has cautioned about six asteroids, including two which are as big as the Eiffel Tower. A total of six asteroids will zoom past Earth on January 6.
The first one is the 2021 AC, which already went past our planet in the morning. It has an average diameter of 73.5 metres and moved at a speed of 50,652 kmph. The second one is named 2016 CO247, which has an average diameter of 340 metres. It went past Earth soon after the 2021 AC at a speed of 60,228 kmph. It was 7.4 million km away from our planet.
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3 asteroids, including one bigger than the Washington Monument, to fly past Earth on Christmas
Three asteroids , including one that's larger than the Washington Monument, are set to safely fly past Earth on Christmas Day, according to NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies.
The largest space rock, known as asteroid 501647 (2014 SD224), is slated to come within 1.9 million miles of Earth and is thought to have a diameter as great as 689 feet. At its size and distance, it is considered a "potentially hazardous" Near-Earth Object (NEO), but it poses no threat to the planet when it zips past later this week.
Harvard professor believes asteroid was actually old alien tech - pennlive.com
An artist's impression shows the first interstellar asteroid, `Oumuamua. Scientist Avi Loeb believes that this space rock could be, in fact, discarded alien technology. (photo by ESO/M. Kornmesser via Wikimedia Commons) ESO/M. Kornmesser
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The New York Post reports that the rock in question was deemed 'Oumuamua (meaning "scout" in Hawaiian), and caused quite a stir within scientific groups.
Not only was 'Oumuamua the first interstellar object ever found within Earth's solar system, but its trajectory indicated its movement was not contingent upon the sun's gravitational pull. In fact, 'Oumuamua appeared to be driven by a force other than our central star's, even accelerating away from the sun at one point.
Asteroid bigger than the Shard and 'potentially hazardous' set to pass Earth | Science
A space rock which is 408 metres wide is set to pass Earth. The asteroid known as 2015 NU13 is being monitored by NASA, and is set to fly by tomorrow, January 9. NASA has revealed that the monstrous rock outsizes the Shard, which is 310 metres tall, and is flying at a staggering 14.8 kilometres per second.
That is more than an astronomical 53,000 kilometres per hour, which means it could fly around the Earth in less than an hour.
Thankfully, the asteroid will pass by at a distance of more than 14 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
A huge asteroid and three small NEOs will shoot past Earth in early Jan, NASA warns, Science News
Year 2020's final asteroid, 2020 YB4, measuring just 36 metres in diameter or roughly half the wingspan of a 747,
passed by the Earth shortly after 6 am UTC at a distance of 6.1 million kilometres.
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The 15-metre asteroid 2019 YB4 will fly by at a safe distance of 6.4 million kilometres. It will be followed up by two
more chunks of cosmic debris in the form of the 15-meter 2020 YA1 and the 21-meter 2020 YP4, which will pass by at
1.5 and 2.1 million kilometers respectively, the next day.
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