Discovered by the LaSagra observatory in southern Spain, the small
asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass within 22,245 of the Earth's surface on February 15, 2013. The asteroid will travel
rapidly from the southern evening sky into the northern morning sky
with its closest Earth approach occurring about 2:26 PM EST when it will
achieve a magnitude of less than seven, which is somewhat fainter than
naked eye visibility. About 4 minutes after its Earth close approach,
there is a good chance it will pass into the Earth's shadow for about 18 minutes or so
before reappearing from the eclipse. When traveling rapidly into the
northern morning sky, 2012 DA14 will quickly fade in brightness. Key points -
- The asteroid will (should) not impact Earth on February 15, 2013.
- There is a 1 in 7,692,308,000 chance of 2012 DA impacting Earth on 16 February 2110.
I don't understand why do people speculate things and why do people come to a conclusion those scientists are providing "end of the world news"...... They are just providing you an information... The news just say it may travel closer to Planet Earth...
ReplyDeleteThe Last impact event was Tunguska blast... and above all, thousands of meteors hit the Planet every day...Most are the size of a grain of rice, or the size basketball or smaller... Once a week Earth is hit by a rock the size of Car, once every few months size of a house... Every few hundred years bigger things... The vast majority of these burn up in the atmosphere... and lots of object go into the inner solar system without colliding with any planets...
The key points were made by the scientist.
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