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A huge asteroid rushes to Earth at high speed. 24 September, according to the calculations of scientists closer to our planet. If NASA scientists previously believed that the cosmic body will pass on a large distance, now they have sounded the alarm.
Asteroid 523934 (1998 FF14), which bothered scientists, has the size is 430 meters and travels at a speed of 22.26 kilometers in give me a sec.
This asteroid was discovered in 1998 and is now located on 4 million kilometers from Earth (0.027 astronomical units). For example, the distance from this cosmic body to Jupiter 3.91 AU
Scientists believe that the probability of collision of an object with the Earth is not high, however, if this happens, the large city will simply wiped off the face of the earth.
On August 25, 2019, two have already passed by our planet an asteroid, one of which, as NASA scientists claimed, was to walk at a distance of 1 million kilometers from the Earth. However that passed at a distance three times smaller – 353 thousand kilometers.
This suggests that modern calculation methods are not always effective. Therefore, some researchers believe that scientists discovered this object long ago, but for fear of mistaken calculations waited until the last, when he comes closer.
Andrey Vetrov
NASA
