Asteroid wider than two professional football fields to pass by Earth today, 14 September – Firstpost

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A “doubtlessly risky” asteroid goes to pass by Earth on 14 September, in step with the Nationwide Aeronautics and Set Administration (NASA).

Identified as 2020 QL2, the asteroid is over 30.48 cm (393 toes) in diameter which is wider than two expert American football fields assign apart collectively. As per the data given out by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of NASA, the rock is anticipated to hover previous our planet at a fling of 38,624.256 kilometres per hour. The asteroid will attain as shut as 6.7 million kilometres to the Earth.

The advance-Earth object (NEO) with its broad size and proximity, however, has no likelihood of hitting our homeworld, assured the residence agency. NASA defines a NEO as a residence object that has a perihelion distance no longer up to 1.3 sizable objects (au). Right here, perihelion is the level the assign apart the Earth is closest to the sun.

Despite the undeniable fact that comets may perhaps even be advance-Earth objects, NASA says that just about all of the NEOs are asteroids. On the bogus hand, Doubtlessly Perilous Asteroids (PHAs) are those which come by the Earth Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance (MOID) of 0.05 au (or 7.4 million kilometres) or much less and measure bigger than 460 toes in diameter.

This asteroid will pass by our planet about 15 days after any other doubtlessly risky asteroid called ‘2011 ES4’ had flown previous our planet. The dwelling rock had attain as shut as 1.2 lakh kilometre from Earth and NASA had mentioned that it used to be the closest methodology of an asteroid of its size within the ten years yet to realize aid. The asteroid used to be between 22 to 50 metres extensive and had passed by us on 1 September.