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According to NASA, at the end of April, an asteroid will approach Earth from 1.8 to 4.1 kilometers, noted by scientists as potentially dangerous.
Asteroid No. 52768 according to the calculations of scientists will approach our planet 29 April at a distance of 6.29 million kilometers, which, for example, 16 times farther than the distance to the moon.
Although the projected distance between the Earth and cosmic body does not cause concern for scientists, this object still belongs to the category of potentially dangerous. Fact is it flight path crosses the orbit of our planet. Asteroid No. 52768 has its orbit, making a revolution around the sun in 3.68 years.
“Potentially hazardous” objects NASA refers to asteroids, the dimensions of which are more than 100 meters, and which are closer than 7.5 million kilometers from our planet. Now under surveillance astronomers more than 2000 similar objects. Let’s hope that they are not much more, and nothing threatens the Earth.
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