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Astronomers are preparing to meet a twenty-meter guest from space that is heading towards our planet. According to NASA, Asteroid 2014 RC will pass 40 thousand kilometers from Earth. Despite at an impressive, by human standards, distance, in space the scale of an asteroid will fly very close to the planet. For comparison, the distance to the moon is ten times greater than it will be between the Earth and 2014 RC at the very close moment of the “meeting”. She will happen 7 September 22:18 Moscow time in the New Zealand area. Admire the heavenly body with the naked eye will not work – for observation will need a telescope, even an amateur one. Fans of doomsday theories this time can calmly exhale – despite being close to Earth, a guest from outer space does not represent threats to its inhabitants were reported by scientists. Communication satellites also not hurt. Astronomers first discovered an asteroid on August 31 from Observatory in Arizona. Then the 2014 RC data was confirmed and refined by the Cambridge Center for the Study of Small Planets in Massachusetts. According to NASA, the asteroid’s flight path allows us to expect his return to the Earth in the future, however, even then rapprochement of the celestial body with our planet will not represent danger. In the long run, the planet’s troubles can deliver another asteroid. According to astronomers from the state Tennessee, Earth may face celestial body 1950 DA kilometer diameter. It flies to the solar system at a speed 15 kilometers per second and the probability of its collision with the Earth is 0.3%, which is a lot by heavenly standards, reports “Russian newspaper”. According to the Americans, the 1950 DA comes close to our planet March 16, 2880.
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