According to a report by Birmingham Live, the enormous asteroid is one and half times the dimensions of the London Eye and it’ll make its closest approach to Earth on July 24
New Delhi | Jagran Trending Desk: The sky gazers across the planet always await asteroids to travel by the world and witness the unique phenomena. However, some asteroids are potentially dangerous and may have a deadly impact on the world. Amid this, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA has warned that a big and ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid will fly past Earth on July 24.
The asteroid is believed to be even bigger than the famous London Eye which is 443 feet high. consistent with a report by Birmingham Live, the enormous asteroid is one and half times the dimensions of the London Eye and it’ll make its closest approach to Earth on July 24.
The space boffins within us have named the space rock Asteroid 2020ND and have been branded “potentially hazardous”. The monstrous rock measuring 170 meters will come within 0.034 astronomical units (AU) of our planet on July 24.
One AU (149,598,000 km) is that the distance between the world and therefore the Sun and it’s expected that coming Saturday, the large asteroid which is traveling at a staggering 13.5 kilometers per second – or 48,000 kilometers per hour are going to be 5,086,327 kilometers faraway from our planet – a hair’s width in astronomical terms.
Birmingham Live quoted the space agency warning over its upcoming approach saying: “Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are currently defined supported parameters that measure the asteroid’s potential to form threatening close approaches to the world .”
“Specifically, all asteroids with a minimum orbit intersection distance (MOID) of 0.05 au or less are considered PHAs,” it added further.
Recently, NASA on its reaction propulsion Laboratory (JPL) website said: “NEOs are comets and asteroids that are nudged by the gravity of nearby planets into orbits that allow them to enter the Earth’s neighborhood.
Informing more about the character of the asteroids, the agency said, “The giant outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) formed from an agglomeration of billions of comets and therefore the comets we see today are the leftover bits and pieces from this formation process. Likewise, today’s asteroids are the bits and pieces leftover from the initial pile of the inner planets that include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.”
NASA warns ‘hazardous asteroid’ bigger than the London Eye to fly past Earth on July 24.
