Massive sized asteroid will zoom past Earth on Monday
By Monday, January 26th, a mountain-sized asteroid will be zooming past earth at a near distance of 745,000 miles or 1.2 million kilometres to our planet. This short distance is almost three times the distance between Earth and the moon – but it won’t pose any threat to Earth.
The next time such a large space rock will fly past Earth will be 2027, but until then, NASA officials are determined to get a good look at this 1,800 feet or 550 meters-wide space rock to study its features and behaviours.
It is agreed that the flyby of Asteroid 2004 BL86 poses no threat whatsoever to Earth, but researchers would still want to know enough about it to determine its orbit and future motions.
Space watchers will be able to see the Asteroid 2004 BL86 in visible light online on Monday through the Virtual Telescope Project in Italy.
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