NASA editions Alert: Eiffel Tower -Aasteroid to meet the earth with an earth with 30,000 km/h this weekend

A colossal asteroid the size of a 100-story building drives past the earth in high-speed flying this weekend, which attracts the full attention of NASA’s asteroid trackers. The Space Rock was called 387746 (2003 MH4) and extends over 335 meters and will drive past the earth on May 24th at 4:07 p.m. on May 24th. She travels with a bladder of 30,060 km/h – fast enough to circle the planet in just more than an hour. NASA classified the Flyby as a “close encounter”, and although the asteroid does not represent a risk of collision, his immense size and speed have made scientists aware.

The Apollo Group of Asteroids includes sole with orbits that cross the path of the earth-2003 MH4 at a distance of 6.67 million kilometers or about 17 times of the earth’s moon distortion. This is close enough to earn the “potentially dangerous asteroid” day because its size exceeds 140 meters and it is within the 7.5 million kilometer -long threshold.

The concern is this flyby, but what future trajectories could. Even minor gravitational nudes of planets or subtle forces such as the Yarkovsky effect, in which the sunlight slowly changes the path of an asteroid, could redirect such objects over time. “The sighting of this weekend is a warning, not a threat,” said the center of NASA for almost the ground of objects (CNEOS).

Just a few days earlier, on May 21, a smaller asteroid called 2025 KF made even closer – only 111,000 kilometers from the earth or less than a third of the distance to the moon. According to a bizarre analogy, the 23-meter-wide rock, which was discovered this year, made comparisons compared to a stack of twelve gorillas.

Despite its size, 2025 KF is treated seriously. Many space rocks are not solid, but “piles of rubble” – loose classes of ruins that are held together by gravity that can change or disintegrate under the influence of planet. “If one of these rocks would ever hit the earth, the destruction would be enormous,” warn experts. The effects could compete with thousands of nuclear bombs, fire fires, tsunamis and seismic shocks, followed by dust clouds that could block sunlight and trigger a so -called “impact winter”.

CNEOS and other observatories continue to scan the sky in order not only to recognize new threats at an early stage, but also to develop strategies for distraction or destruction if necessary. For the time being, this Flyby is a cosmic near-miss and a strong memory of the fact that security in space is never guaranteed.