An asteroid with a diameter of 45 meters, which will be held on February 15 at record close to Earth did not scare American scientists and specialists. He poses no threat to the planet itself, neither the satellites in its orbit, nor the International Space Station, assures earthlings agency NASA. Astronomers from harvard and Arizona Universities have confirmed a comforting forecast. 
Photo from open sources Space guest with ordinal number 2012 DA14, in a week will approach the Earth “only” at 27.7 thousands of kilometers. This is the shortest distance such an asteroid has ever flown to Earth. It’s about 10 times less than the distance to the moon and closer than the “belt” of artificial satellites in geostationary orbit. But the asteroid whose trajectory is well studied, there is no chance to collide with the Earth, ITAR-TASS reports. And if a collision happened, then a disaster on a regional scale would occur on Earth. Weight the asteroid is 130 thousand tons, and the speed is 28.1 thousand kilometers per hour (or 7.82 kilometers per second). When falling to the surface of our planet it would cause the same destruction like the famous Tunguska meteorite or nuclear bomb capacity of 2.5 megatons. A guest from world space as much as possible close to Earth February 15 at 14 hours 24 minutes in time East coast of the USA (23:24 Moscow time). In that moment the asteroid will fly over Sumatra island located in the eastern Indian Ocean. Next time 2012 DA14 only close to us in a very distant future. Generally similar-sized asteroids fly close to Earth about every 40 years, and they become the “culprits” of clashes and disasters about once every 1200 years.
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