giant asteroid will be in its closest path near Earth next week
There has been a lot of news that on January 18, an asteroid with a range of up to 1 kilometer (3,451 feet) will pass close to Earth.
According to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies, which monitors potentially hazardous comets and asteroids that could crash with our planet, it will pass within 1.2 million miles of Earth, moving at 47,344 miles per hour.
According to NASA, the coming asteroid is named as 7482 (1994 PC1) and was discovered in 1994.
Nobody expects asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) to hit Earth, but NASA predicts that it will be the closest asteroid will get for the next two centuries. The flyby is expected for Tuesday, January 18th at 4.51 p.m. ET.
This will not be the greatest asteroid to pass by Earth. On September 1, 2017, the asteroid 3122 Florence (1981 ET3) passed by and barely missed crashing with Earth. That asteroid, which is believed to be between 2.5 and 5.5 miles diameter, will pass by Earth again on September 2, 2057.
Next September, a NASA spacecraft will hit into an asteroid to adjust its direction in space, putting technology developed to prevent an asteroid collision to a test.
The spacecraft is aimed at Dimorphos, a small moon orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Didymos, and is known as the DART mission, or Double Asteroid Redirection Test.
Asteroids and comets with orbits that bring them within 30 million miles (48 million kilometres) of Earth are classified as near-Earth objects. NASA and other space organisations around the world are focusing their efforts on detecting the threat of near-Earth objects, or news that might cause serious devastation.
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