{"id":98978,"date":"2020-04-29T10:31:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T14:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=98978"},"modified":"2020-04-29T10:31:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T14:31:58","slug":"large-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-nasa-has-been-tracking-for-22-years-will-fly-past-earth-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=98978","title":{"rendered":"Large \u201cPotentially Hazardous\u201d Asteroid NASA Has Been Tracking for 22 Years Will Fly Past Earth Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nNear-Earth Object. Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/em><\/p>\n

The large near-Earth object is well known to astronomers and will get no closer than 3.9 million miles to our planet.<\/p>\n

A large near-Earth asteroid will safely pass by our planet on Wednesday morning, providing astronomers with an exceptional opportunity to study the 1.5-mile-wide (2-kilometer-wide) object in great detail.<\/p>\n

The asteroid, called 1998 OR2, will make its closest approach at 5:55 a.m. EDT (2:55 a.m. PDT). While this is known as a \u201cclose approach\u201d by astronomers, it\u2019s still very far away: The asteroid will get no closer than about 3.9 million miles (6.3 million kilometers), passing more than 16 times farther away than the Moon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This GIF, composed of observations by the Virtual Telescope Project, shows asteroid 1998 OR2 (the central dot) as it traversed the constellation Hydra five days before its closest approach to Earth. It was about 4.4 million miles (7.08 million kilometers) away from Earth at the time. Credit: Dr. Gianluca Masi (Virtual Telescope Project)<\/em><\/p>\n

Asteroid 1998 OR2 was discovered by the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking program at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in July 1998, and for the past two decades astronomers have tracked it. As a result, we understand its orbital trajectory very precisely, and we can say with confidence that this asteroid poses no possibility of impact for at least the next 200 years. Its next close approach to Earth will occur in 2079, when it will pass by closer \u2014 only about four times the lunar distance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest here: Sci Tech Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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