On February 15, 2013, an asteroid slammed into Earth’s atmosphere at nearly 70,000 kilometers per hour. Almost the size of a tennis court, it blazed brilliantly in the sky, as if a second sun had appeared and was racing from southeast to northwest .
Ramming through the air at hypersonic velocities blowtorched the asteroid’s surface, and left behind a thick trail of vaporized rock as it screamed over the Earth.
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A sizable space rock will make its closest approach to Earth in four centuries on Wednesday evening (Feb. 15), but there's nothing to fear.
The near-Earth asteroid 2005 YY128 will zoom within 2.8 million miles (4.5 million km) of our planet at 7:46 p.m. EST on Wednesday (0046 GMT on Feb. 16) — closer than it's gotten to us in more than 400 years, according to EarthSky.org (opens in new tab) .
NASA: Asteroid will pass by Earth Wednesday at 2.8 million miles away
A massive asteroid named 2005 YY128 will fly by Earth at a safe distance on Feb. 15, Paul Chodas, the director for the Center of Near Earth Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory , told USA TODAY.
"Yes, the asteroid is probably fairly large, probably between 1,903 and 4,265 feet " Chodas said in a statement on Monday.
And you can read all about it in my latest article in @SciAm: https://t.co/ZarVgfIFqd BadAstronomer (from Boulder) Wed Feb 15 18:02:24 +0000 2023
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