{"id":438451,"date":"2022-04-27T22:58:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T19:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/enormous-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-to-soar-past-earth-tomorrow\/"},"modified":"2022-04-27T22:58:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T19:58:13","slug":"enormous-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-to-soar-past-earth-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/enormous-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-to-soar-past-earth-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"#Enormous \u2018potentially hazardous\u2019 asteroid to soar past Earth tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a9709942f9\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a9709942f9\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/enormous-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-to-soar-past-earth-tomorrow\/#%E2%80%9CEnormous_%E2%80%98potentially_hazardous_asteroid_to_soar_past_Earth_tomorrow%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Enormous \u2018potentially hazardous\u2019 asteroid to soar past Earth tomorrow&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CEnormous_%E2%80%98potentially_hazardous_asteroid_to_soar_past_Earth_tomorrow%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Enormous \u2018potentially hazardous\u2019 asteroid to soar past Earth tomorrow&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>NASA is keeping a watchful eye on an asteroid that will make a knee-wobbling close pass of Earth on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The space rock 2008 AG33 is up to 2,560 feet long, making it twice the size of the Empire State Building.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, it\u2019s expected to scorch past at a safe distance and poses no threat to our planet.<\/p>\n<p>The asteroid has been added to\u00a0NASA\u2019s\u00a0\u201cClose <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>roaches\u201d\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cneos.jpl.nasa.gov\/ca\/\">database<\/a>, which tracks thousands of so-called near-Earth objects (NEOs).<\/p>\n<p>According to NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the rock is <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing at 23,300 mph \u2013 13 times faster than a bullet.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll zip within about two million miles of Earth \u2013 a stone\u2019s throw in space terms.<\/p>\n<p>Any fast-moving object that comes within 4.65 million miles of us is considered \u201cpotentially hazardous\u201d by cautious space organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s asteroid was discovered in January 2008, by asteroid surveyors at the Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter observatory in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s last pass of Earth was in March 2015. The asteroid passes our planet during its orbit of the Sun roughly once every seven years.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/asteroid-earth.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Asteroid\" class=\"wp-image-22058212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/asteroid-earth.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/asteroid-earth.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/asteroid-earth.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>An asteroid twice the size of the Empire State Building will travel within two million miles of Earth tomorrow. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images\/<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a> Photo Library<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s one of the more than 2,000 asteroids, comets and other NEOs that are being tracked by experts 24\/7.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re monitored to provide us with an early warning should a space rock shift onto a collision course with our planet.<\/p>\n<p>Earth hasn\u2019t seen an asteroid of apocalyptic scale since the monster that wiped out the dinosaurs 66million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>However, smaller ones capable of flattening an entire city crash into Earth every so often.<\/p>\n<p>A rock a few hundred meters across devastated 800-square miles of forest near Tunguska in Siberia on June 30, 1908.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, NASA doesn\u2019t believe any of the NEOs it keeps an eye on are on a collision course with our planet.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There&#8217;s been some hype about asteroid 2008 AG33 which is going to &#8220;Zip&#8221; past Earth on April 27 at only 8.4 Lunar Distances. The asteroid is 5x bigger than the London Eye, or twice as tall as the Empire State Building, or 217.4 giraffes. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LdWOAinlZ1\">pic.twitter.com\/LdWOAinlZ1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tony Dunn (@tony873004) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tony873004\/status\/1517327632446107648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>That could change in the coming months or years, however, as the space agency frequently revises objects\u2019 predicted trajectories.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers could in future discover a gigantic rock that had previously alluded their telescopes, although NASA believes it has found 90 percent of potential planet killers in our vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNASA knows of no asteroid or comet currently on a collision course with Earth, so the probability of a major collision is quite small,\u201d NASA says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, as best as we can tell, no large object is likely to strike the Earth any time in the next several hundred years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even if one were to hit our planet, the vast majority of asteroids would not wipe out life as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlobal catastrophes\u201d are only triggered when objects larger than .55 miles across smash into Earth, according to NASA.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story originally appeared <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tech\/5213534\/enormous-asteroid-soar-earth-empire-state-building\/\">on The Sun<\/a> and was reproduced here with permission. <\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The space rock 2008 AG33 is up to 2,560 feet long, making it twice the size of the Empire State Building. 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