Asteroid Near Earth: NASA Confirms Weekend Approach
- Los Astronomers They have their eyes on the sky this weekend.
- This lunar movement could end the total eclipses of sun: experts know the deadline
- Although it may sound alarming, scientists from the NASA They assure that it passes at a safe distance of 609 thousand miles, far enough to not represent any...
Los Astronomers They have their eyes on the sky this weekend. An asteroid the size of a house Travel near the planet at a dizzying speed of 17,717 miles per hour.
This lunar movement could end the total eclipses of sun: experts know the deadline
Although it may sound alarming, scientists from the NASA They assure that it passes at a safe distance of 609 thousand miles, far enough to not represent any danger to the inhabitants of the Earth, it indicates Newsweek.
How is the asteroid that happens to Earth
The space visitor, cataloged as 2025 PR1, has approximately 55 feet in diameter according to the estimates of the NASA jet propulsion laboratory, reviewed by the aforementioned medium.
This type of space rocks are not a rarity. In fact, next week three other asteroids will also make their journey near Planet Earth.
This Sunday, August 17, 2025 PM arrives, the size of an airplane, followed on August 20 by two more: one gigantic 990 feet (similar to one stadium) and another 160 feet wide.
To put things in perspective, small asteroids up to 30 feet impact the earth once per decade, they usually leave spectacular fireballs and sonic rumbles that sometimes break windows, but rarely cause destruction of great importance.
Scientists continue to monitor much larger and more potentially dangerous objects, such as the Bennu asteroid of more than a thousand feet wide, which has a probability of one in 2,700 to collide with the earth in September in September 2182, an event that could have catastrophic consequences for the planet.
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