World News – GB – Asteroid flies ‘extremely close’ to Earth at 11% of the distance from the Moon at 13 years 6 Miles per SECOND!

A peculiar space rock known as UF3 2020 recently blown down by Earth on October 22 Astronomers were fortunately able to get a photo of the passing asteroid According to the official Virtual Telescope project, the asteroid was extremely close to Earth at only a distance of about 26,000 miles from Earth This is only about 11% of the total distance between the Moon and Earth

NASA’s own data recently revealed that said asteroid was flying at an unexpected speed of 136 miles per second or over 49,000 miles per hour Even the Virtual Telescope Project recently described the whole phenomenon as the fastest asteroid the astronomical group has ever seen, according to website

An Express UK article continued the statement saying that the near-Earth asteroid known as UF3 2020 has safely moved particularly close to the given planet, being able to reach a minimum distance of the Land of about 42,000 kilometers or 26,000 miles When calculated, this is only 11% of the average distance from the moon

The installation of the virtual telescope said the asteroid would move at extremely fast speeds across the sky and even set a record The given asteroid was said to be around 57 to 13 meters wide and has already been discovered by the official Mount Lemmon Return on October 21 This asteroid was able to reach its minimum distance from Earth itself on October 22, 2020 at exactly 22:17 UTC

The Virtual Telescope Project clarified that this particular asteroid poses « no risk » at any level to our planet It has also been said that even though the recent asteroid has in fact collided with Earth, it does not would burn that in the atmosphere just 13 meters in size

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NASA also referred to said asteroid as a « near-earth object », otherwise known as NEO, as it has reached close proximity to the planet Near-Earth Objects help by allowing both NASA and other space agencies to study the entire history of the solar system

NASA has stated that known NEOs are in fact comets and asteroids which were eventually pushed by the enormous gravitational pull of nearby planets into orbits that will allow them to penetrate all of Earth’s neighborhood.

Scientific interest in comets and asteroids is believed to be largely due to their own status as relatively unchanged remaining debris from the process of solar system formation that occurred some 46 billion years ago in the past Observation of near-Earth objects allows astronauts to take a closer look at alien material

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