A photo open source Illustration: Fox News / ESA DX110 will fly near the Earth’s orbit on the night of March 6. Asteroid size with a nine-story house will fly by near the Earth on the night of March 6. The celestial body, called DX110, was discovered 28 February using the Pan-STARRS 1 complex in Hawaii significantly more meteorite that fell in February last year under Chelyabinsk: its diameter is about 30 meters. On the night of Thursday DX110 will be closer to the Earth than the Moon. However, according to NASA experts should not be afraid of a collision with an asteroid: the distance between its trajectory and the Earth’s orbit will be about 290 thousand kilometers. The asteroid is not visible to the naked eye. it turns out: according to astronomers, to observe the DX110 you need as minimum semi-professional telescope. And here is the asteroid AN10, which flies past the earth in 13 years, not only will be available for observing earthlings, but can also cause panic. The fact is that the celestial body, discovered back in 1999, is larger than Chebarkulsky meteorite is almost 50 times – its diameter is 903 meters. Besides Moreover, the asteroid moves much faster than the others – its speed is 26.3 km / second. Astronomers speculate that he will fly past Earth at the same distance as DX110, but note that AN10 in recent years, behaves unpredictably. The fact is that since 1955 to 2006 astronomers almost 200 times claimed to have discovered this an asteroid, but each time they did not have time to calculate its orbit and eventually lost sight of AN10. Last time he approached Earth in 2007; the planet’s gravitational field is believed changed the trajectory of his movement, so talk about how the next time he flies away from her, it’s possible only taking into account big error. Specialists from NASA and EMERCOM of Russia note that Do not underestimate the danger of asteroids. According to preliminary forecasts that this year meteorites will not fall to Earth, however experts warn that even the most accurate technique reports dangerous rapprochement of celestial bodies with the planet only in a day. because of Russian rescuers even suggested introducing legislation the concept of “asteroid-comet hazard”. At nasa after a meteorite falls in Lake Chebarkul near Chelyabinsk recognized that they could notice his telescope in only two hours and only in the dark. The fall of the meteorite (at 09:23 a.m.) became complete surprise for locals.
Olga SUMSKAYA
NASA Russia Telescope Chelyabinsk
