"Potentially Hazardous"
The world's largest and longest asteroid will arrive on Earth next week. NASA is a project in which an asteroid, named 7482 (1994 PC1), will fly on January 18.
The asteroid is estimated to measure about 1 mile, or more than 3,280 feet, wide - more than twice the height of the New York Empire State Building, 1,454 feet from the ground, and hundreds of feet above that. Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, 2,716.5 feet high.
The closest Asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) on Earth will take place on January 18, 2022.
NASA JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory believes that the spacecraft could reach 1,231,184 kilometers from Earth. This could be the closest asteroid to land on Earth since January 17, 1933, when NASA revealed that it landed less than 700,000 miles from Earth.
The asteroid is expected to hit the Earth in July this year, albeit at a very high distance, NASA said. In the future it is expected to fly to Earth farther away until January 18, 2105, expected to land between 1,445,804 miles.
The space agency has been monitoring this particular asteroid since its discovery in August 1994, and has classified it as the Apollo asteroid, meaning its global route, and with large axes. It has also been described as "potentially dangerous" by its ability to create a threat to the earth, "according to NASA.
There are more than a million known asteroids, and it is not uncommon for many to fly to Earth, most of them less caring. On Wednesdays and Thursdays this week, for example, there are at least five asteroids approaching the earth, including one the size of a bus and three the size of a house, according to NASA.
However, there are about 25,000 asteroids close to Earth at least 500 feet wide that could "cause damage" if they crash into Earth, according to Nancy Chabot, a major planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory.
"Actually we are not talking about a catastrophe, but a regional catastrophe that could destroy a city or a small country," he said earlier. "And it's really annoying. It's really dangerous."
And in an asteroid emergency in the future like Netflix's "Don't Look," NASA is already working on a solution. In November, the agency launched an investigation that will crash directly into a small asteroid subsequent crash as part of a test to determine if it is possible to push a future asteroid if it appears to collide with it. the planet.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, will collide with a 525-foot-wide body called Dimorphos at a speed of 15,000 miles per hour.