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In the middle of a pandemic and a blockade, the Earth is waiting these days and a βολή invasion from space: asteroids travel to our long-suffering planet!
How our planet besieged by an invisible, highly unpredictable and dangerous enemy, is nearing its goal 2020, the universe seems to be doing black humor about humanity by sending out five asteroids in two days, while a large rock about a kilometer in diameter follows a few days later. THE asteroid – a beast named “2000 WO107It is estimated to be up to 0.51 km in diameter, which means: approximately the height of the skyscraper «Burj khalifa“Your Dubai, the tallest building in the world, will visit Earth (at a safe distance) at 10.09 am GMT (5.09 am ET) on Sunday, November 29.
The celestial visitor will not be close to Earth for long and despite its enormous size, it travels at an unimaginable speed of 25.07 kilometers per second or about 90,000 km per hour. To understand speed, a bullet fired from a firearm reaches about 4,500 km per hour. Also, the asteroid will not be visible to most of Earth’s inhabitants.
THE POT consider and define an object that approaches any asteroid or comet that reaches Earth within 1.3 AU (1 Astronomical Units = 149,597,871 km) of Earth.
Meanwhile, there will be intense activity in our “space yard”, with five asteroids expected in the area on Monday and Tuesday. On Monday, three space rocks, the “2020 WN” with 9.5 m. in diameter, the “2020 VW2” (14 m.) and the 2020 WC (10 m.) will reach a distance from Earth of 1.6 million kilometers, 7 million kilometers and 1.6 million kilometers respectively.
The average distance between the Earth and the Moon is about 385,000 kilometers, but NASA considers all objects worth observing at a distance of 7.5 million kilometers (or 19.5 times the distance from the Moon), in case it happens suddenly. change its course.
NASA and other space agencies around the world are watching the event closely 24 hours a day.But there is a lot of sky to cover, so humanity can sometimes lose contact with these “flybys”, as nearby asteroid flights are called. And until 2020 is over, let’s listen to what we hear, whatever happens, nothing will surprise us …
