¡324600 Kilometers = 201697.0890002386 Miles!
Esa es la distancia que va a separar la tierra del Asteroide conocido como 2005 YU55, el próximo 8 de Noviembre.Con un diámetro de 400 metros, este gigante trozo de roca cósmica será el que más cerca de nuestro planeta ha pasado en los últimos 200 años.
(RTTNews) - An asteroid measuring 400 meters in diameter will safely streak past the Earth slightly closer than the moon's orbit on November 8. The space rock known as 2005 YU55 will come close to 324,600 kilometers of the Earth surface, making this encounter the closest this space rock has made in 200 years.
El cuerpo será rastreado por la NASA con un telescopio espacial de 70 metros a partir de mañana 4 de noviembre y hasta el próximo día 10, mientras que el Radar Planetario Arecibo en Puerto Rico comenzará a observarlo el mismo día 8.
A continuación, pueden seguir leyendo la noticia en Inglés- Por mi parte, me pregunto si la tierra está preparada para romper un Asteroide de tal o mayor magnitud, en caso de que la trayectoria amenazara con destruir el planeta.
Con todas las crisis económicas actuales, y los recortes hechos a la NASA en particular, como enfrentaríamos un desastre de tal magnitud?
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Scientists are treating the flyby of 2005 YU55 as a science target of opportunity - allowing it to be scanned during the close pass and provide clues about formation of the Earth.
The aircraft carrier-sized asteroid will be tracked by a 70-meter radar telescope at the space agency NASA's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, California, beginning Nov. 4 through Nov. 10, and the Arecibo Planetary Radar Facility in Puerto Rico will begin tracking the asteroid on November 8.
The images of 2005 YU55 obtained from Goldstone are expected to reveal a wealth of detail about the asteroid's surface features, shape, dimensions and other physical properties.
2005 YU55 poses no threat of an Earth collision over, at the very least, the next 100 years, according to Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
The last time a similarly large space rock came as close to Earth was in 1976, but went unnoticed as astronomers did not know about the flyby at the time. The next known approach of an asteroid this large will be in 2028.
by RTT Staff Writer
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