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Though this asteroid will come nearest to Earth it is thankfully the smallest at 13 feet wide about the size of a car. 20 rows The small near-Earth asteroids 2008 TC 3 2014 AA 2018 LA and 2019 MO are the.

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NASA keeps a close watch on NEOs.

. NASA projects the asteroid named 7482 1994 PC1 will fly by Earth on Jan. It will zoom by at about 44000 mph before venturing off into another solar orbit and wont. NASA has its eye on Asteroid 4660 Nereus because its well over 492 feet long and will come within 46 million miles of Earth. These are called Trojan asteroids.

Several NASA space missions have also flown by and observed asteroids. An asteroid colliding with Earth roughly 66 million years ago is thought to be one of the main factors bringing the dinosaurs to extinction. An asteroid impact has the potential to destroy life on an entire planet hence asteroids have been an object of fear for humans. According to the space agency NASA small size asteroids can be detected passing between Earth and Moon several times a month Meteoroids which are small pieces of a asteroid and comets are usually less than 3 feet in size and they can hit and explode in the atmosphere.

Atira asteroids are near-Earth asteroids whose orbits are contained within Earths orbit. The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft landed on Eros an asteroid near Earth in 2001. An asteroid around the size if a bus will approach the Earth in the first week of January itself. An asteroid classed as potentially hazardous by astronomers is due to make one of its closest known passes to our planet next month.

Indeed planet killers are reckoned to come. The near-Earth asteroid Apophis artists impression will fly within 40000 kilometres of the planet in 2029 much closer than it came this month. Time and again asteroid impacts on Earth have scarred the surface of the blue planet leaving behind massive craters. That puts it in the potentially hazardous category.

These are called impact events where asteroids coming from space enter the earths atmosphere and collides with the earths surface. Some asteroids go in front of and behind Jupiter. An asteroid of this size strikes Earth about every 600000 years according to EarthSky. There are lots of asteroids in our solar system.

Tiny bits of asteroids that have flown through our atmosphere and landed on Earths surface. Well actually its expected to safely pass the planet but one asteroid is making headlines for its expected visit. Scientists can learn about asteroids by studying meteorites. These impact events may release enough energy which may be equal to a nuclear bomb.

But of the roughly 18000 known asteroids that might tangle with Earth few are that massive. 50 km 31 mi 253 Mathilde is a rubble pile saturated with craters with diameters the size of the asteroids radius and Earth-based observations of 300 km 186 mi 511 Davida one of the largest. Asteroids comets and meteoroids are large rocks in space that orbit the Sun and occasionally vary. At approximately 1083 feet it is 20 feet.

Asteroids that come close to Earth are called Near Earth Objects NEOs for short. Planet-killing asteroids impact the earth every 50 million years Professor Monica Grady the Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University tells Radio 1. Most of them are located in the main asteroid belt a region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid that hit Earth 65 million years ago would have been much much larger than this.

Asteroid 2020 AP1 will come closest to Earth at about 1080000 miles away on January 7 2022. Asteroids Meteoroids and comets are all commonly known as near-Earth objects NEO. For this exact same purpose NASA has deployed multiple Asteroid watching satellites. Most asteroids outside the big four Ceres Pallas Vesta and Hygiea are likely to be broadly similar in appearance if irregular in shape.

There are a further three asteroids predicted to pass between 1 and 5 million miles from the Earth in the next few days ranging in size from that. NASA has tracked over 27000. The asteroid 4660 Nereus discovered in 1982 is classified as a potential hazardous asteroid by NASA due to its size and how close it approaches Earth. Roughly once every 2000 years and object about the size of a football field collides with Earth.

Massive asteroids will whiz past Earth in coming weeks including 1 nearly size of Empire State Building. Astronomers also classify certain near-Earth asteroids as. Currently NASA is tracking the course of several hundreds of asteroids that could potentially be hazardous to human life on Earth.

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