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A block of stone about 1000 meters in size moves to our the planet. October 25 will be the maximum rapprochement, reported in NASA
Scientists immediately reassured: despite the relatively large size, a space object is not dangerous to the Earth.
The asteroid will approach the Earth at 20:21 Moscow time in Friday October 25th. The closest possible distance between the Earth and an asteroid will be about 16 distances to the moon, that is, about 6 million kilometers.
This celestial body belongs to the Apollo group, and was discovered he was a scientist in the spring of 1998.
However, some researchers do not share the optimism of scientists, since NASA recently often makes mistakes in calculations relative to the distances to the observed objects. So, for example, 25 August 2019, two asteroids with a diameter of about 120 meters rushed past the earth. And one of them (2019 OD) was held at distance three times closer than imagined. According to NASA, the distance to the Earth was only 353 thousand kilometers. I.e not 1 million as expected.
Andrey Vetrov
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