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A truck-sized asteroid flew by on Thursday Earth causing no danger, in one of the closest approaches ever recorded, space scientists said.
asteroid 2023 boorecently discovered by an amateur astronomer, flew over the southern tip of South America around 4:29 pm (US West Coast time, 00:29 GMT on Friday), according to the US space agency. POT.
The closest rock was only 2,200 miles (3,600 km) from the Earth’s surface, much closer than many geostationary satellites orbiting the planet.
2023 BU was discovered a few days ago
The stone was discovered on Saturday at the observatory in Crimea amateur astronomer Gennady Borisovwhich had already detected an interstellar comet in 2019.
Then dozens of observations were made at observatories around the world, and the collision risk assessment system scoutfrom POTquickly ruled out the impact of the asteroid on Earththe space agency said.
Despite some observations, scout could have predicted that the asteroid would “approach Earth extremely close,” said Davide Farnoccia, who helped develop the system. scout.
“In fact, this is one of the closest known approximations of an object to Earth ever recorded,” he added.
2023 BU: But… what if the scientists were wrong?
But even if the calculations were wrong, humanity, according to scientists, would be safe.
Measuring only 3.5 to 8.5 meters in length, 2023 BU is too small to cause significant damage and would burst into flames upon re-entry.
Some meteors the ones that landed are small, unlike the huge blocks that destroy cities and cause tsunamis in the movies.
His approach to Earth will have a longer lasting effect on asteroidaccording to mathematicians POT.
Earth’s gravity will increase the time it takes for asteroid make a full circle around Sunfrom 359 days in the past to 425 days, according to POT.
AFP
Source: RPP
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