'City killer' asteroid almost three times the size of Big Ben set to make its closest pass of Earth TODAY | DJHT57E | 2024-02-02 15:08:02
Asteroid 2008 OS7 is a whopping 890ft (271m), in accordance with the Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which can monitor the enormous area
A "POTENTIALLY hazardous" asteroid almost 3 times the dimensions of Huge Ben is about to make its closest cross of Earth at present.
Asteroid 2008 OS7 is a whopping 890ft (271m), in accordance with the Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which can monitor the enormous area rock because it flies by.
Nevertheless, it's closest strategy will come no nearer than 1,770,000 miles of Earth.
That distance is more than seven occasions additional away than the moon orbits Earth.
There isn't any worry that the asteroid will impression Earth, in response to Nasa.
The asteroid has been categorized as a "Probably Hazardous Asteroid (PHA)" because its orbit intersects with that of Earth.
If it have been to collide with Earth, asteroid 2008 OS7 it might wipe out a metropolis as giant as New York.
Newbie astronomers should stand-down, nevertheless, as 2008 OS7 won't be visible to the bare eye or together with your average telescope.
</div> As area rocks go, asteroid 2008 OS7 is fairly minor.
Last yr, Earth had more than 100 shut encounters with giant asteroids.
Based on Dr Minjae Kim, Analysis Fellow within the Division of Physics at Warwick College, 2008 OS7 is "a really small asteroid" regardless of the injury it might do.
Dr Kim added: "Probably the most intriguing elements of the 2008 OS7 is its estimated diameter based mostly on its luminosity and reflective properties, ranging from zero.221 to 0.494 kilometres.
"This places it in the category of a small to moderately-sized asteroid, roughly equivalent to the dimensions of a soccer subject.
"We don't need to worry about it too much as this asteroid won't enter Earth's environment, while it will nonetheless strategy near the Earth."
The subsequent time asteroid 2008 OS7 will move by Earth is in 962 days, when it completes its orbit across the solar.
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