An asteroid anointed as 2015 DR215 will pass “close” to Earth this Friday, March 11. The asteroid has been called “potentially dangerous” by NASA. The object was first seen on February 18, 2015 and is classified as “Atira”, that is, it orbits within Earth’s orbit and moves slower than other bodies, at a speed of 8.31 kilometers per second. , Reportedly by the DNA.
What features of the asteroid make it bigger than the Great Pyramid?
The asteroid is 0.217 to 485 kilometers in diameter and completes an orbit around the sun every 199 days (0.54 years). It is expected to pass nearly seven million kilometers from our planet (6,700,488), the equivalent of 17.43 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon. This asteroid is expected to make 31 close approaches to our planet over the next few decades, although on none of these occasions it will be less than 6,663,021 kilometers from Earth.
The #NearEarthObject #NEO (2015 DR215) flies by at a distance of about 6,700,000 km (that’s 17 lunar distances). It hurtles past at a speed of about 8.3 km/s. pic.twitter.com/WUuoMFJyPH
— Approaching Near Earth Object (@flybyneo) March 11, 2022
Near Earth Asteroid Scout
NEA Scout will visit an asteroid estimated to be smaller than a school bus. The target is 2020 GE, a near-earth asteroid (NEA) that is less than 18 meters in size. Launching with the Artemis I unmanned test flight, NASA’s shoebox-sized Near-Earth Asteroid Scout will chase what will become the smallest asteroid ever visited by a spacecraft. It will get there by deploying a solar sail to harness solar radiation for propulsion, making this the first deep-space mission of its kind.
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