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The asteroid should be 0. 51 km in diameter – just like the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco – and is within 4. 302. Pass 775 km from Earth.
It should also be as tall as the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which is over 800 m high.
NASA defines asteroids as “rocky, airless remnants that are left over from our solar system’s early formation at around 4 am. 6 billion years ago « and indicates that to date there are about 1. 031. 488 of them exist.
This particular asteroid was discovered on Jan.. First discovered by scientists in New Mexico November 2000 and has been tracked ever since.
The asteroid 153201 2000 WO107 is expected to be released on Sunday, May 29th. November to get close to Earth at 10:09 GMT and expected to be around 100. Reach 000 km / h. Try to get those speeds now, Lewis Hamilton.
It has been classified as a Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) because it is within 1. 3 astronomical miles of Earth, in addition to being labeled a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) by the space reference. org.
It is also classified as an Apollo asteroid as it collides with Earth’s orbit on its way through space.
Although it has been classified as an NEA – and also absolutely huge – astronomers unfortunately cannot see asteroid 153201 2000 WO107 from Earth.
While it is said that there is no chance the asteroid will actually hit our planet since it is classified as an NEA, NASA appears to be implementing its national Near-Earth Object Preparation Strategy and worst-case scenario action plan reported The Express.
Niamh Shackleton is a pint-sized person and journalist at UNILAD. After studying multimedia journalism at the University of Salford, she worked for the Caters News Agency as a feature writer in Birmingham for a year before deciding that Manchester was (arguably) one of the best places in the world and moved again North. She is also UNILAD’s unofficial crazy animal woman.
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