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In the fall of 2017, a huge asteroid may collide with the Earth. According to scientists, the facility is capable of causing enormous damage. certain areas of our planet. Astronomer Judith Rees literally sounds the alarm about the arrival of a giant asteroid in October 2017 year. If an asteroid collides with the Earth, then the destruction will be many times more than the Chelyabinsk meteorite caused at one time. According to scientists, the size of the asteroid (2012 TC4) is about 40 meters – twice the size of Chelyabinsk. Meteorite now approached a distance of 95 thousand kilometers. Unknown only – what will be the distance between the Earth and the asteroid at the moment rapprochement. Specialists from around the world think that worry not worth it, since the odds of a collision are one in a million. In addition, recently a similar asteroid flew past Earth. Asteroid 2012 TC4 was spotted in the fall of 2012 at the Hawaii Observatory. This object quickly moves in space and has an elongated form. As astronomers have established, an insidious asteroid in the past repeatedly approached the Earth, but there were no problems.
But you should not relax on this, because soon us waiting for the arrival of ten more asteroids.
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