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Scientists from NASA found out when and how the asteroid Bennu appeared, which is on the list of the most dangerous asteroids, and why is it moving towards our planet.
Experts believe that the asteroid Bennu was formed as a result of impact of two huge cosmic bodies located at that time in an asteroid belt, from where it was pushed out.
Asteroid has long been included in the list of potentially dangerous for the Earth asteroids. According to NASA astronomers, a possible collision with our planet with a probability of 1 in 4000 should be expected in the interval from 2169 to 2199. This object has attracted so much attention. scientists that he became the first small celestial body, the trajectory which was able to calculate with maximum accuracy. Foreign media They called it the Doomsday Asteroid. However, scientists hope that by at that time, humanity will have all the necessary technology, which will artificially affect the trajectory of this dangerous celestial body and avoid this “judgment day.”
In order to learn more about this object, in December 2018. scientists sent a probe to asteroid Bennu OSIRIS-Rex, which is programmed to take soil samples from its surface and deliver it to Earth. When the probe flew up to asteroid, then for a long time it did not work for him to gain a foothold on it due to dust emitted by the asteroid. Ufologists even suggested that someone was ahead of earthlings and “staked out” an asteroid for their goals. Unfortunately, about this incident, if any really happened, very little information therefore should focus on official sources.
Despite the difficulties encountered, scientists received pictures Bennu asteroid at close range.
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According to scientists, the asteroid Bennu formed in an asteroid the belt between Jupiter and Mars almost 100 million years ago. Scientists this was found out by carefully studying the composition of the asteroid matter of the solar system.
Asteroid Bennu is not dangerous, but only in this century
If we assume that the asteroid collides with the Earth, then the explosion from it will be equal to the exploding 150 megatons of TNT, which in Twenty times the size of a nuclear bomb. Currently and the next hundred years, scientists do not see the danger in this asteroid, however, in the next century he will make earthlings nervous, so how it flies closer than the moon is from the earth.
Andrey Vetrov
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