A planet the size of London’s famous Big Ben Clock Tower will shine on the Earth of the past this week.
The space rock, known as 2020 TGI, will fly safely off Earth at 10:49 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 22, according to NASA’s Center-Near-Earth ject budget studies.
Researchers estimate that by 2020 TGI is traveling at a speed of about 30,700 miles per hour and will fly the planet at a distance of only 7 million miles.
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Its most recent encounter with the planet was April 20, 2013, and it will not come close to Earth again until February 6, 2024. Scientists estimate that the 2020 TGI is between 154 and 360 feet.
“Potentially hazardous” NEOs are defined as space objects objects that fall within 0.05 astronomical units and measure more than 460 feet in diameter, according to NASA. Planetary.R.G. According to a 2018 report put together by, there are more than 18,000 SEOs.
In August Gust, a pickup-truck-sized planet flew 2,000 miles from Earth, the closest recorded so far. It missed until after it flew off the planet by NASA.
NASA unveiled a 20-page plan in 2018 that details what steps the U.S. should take to better prepare for SEOs such as asteroids and comets within 30 million miles of Earth.
A recent survey has shown that Americans prefer a space program that focuses on potential asteroid effects on sending humans back to the moon or to Mars.
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NASA Administrator Jim Brydenstein said in April 2019 that the asteroid strike was not to be taken lightly and that Earth was probably the biggest threat to Earth.
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