An asteroid capable to destroying a city past the Earth but NASA didn't notice it
News24xx.com - An asteroid that could have eliminated an area the size of a New York city was traces the earth at a speed of nearly 5.5 miles per second (9km / s). The whale-sized space rock - called 2017 VL2 - is just 73,000 miles (117,480 km) from our planet as it passes - which is one-third of the distance between Earth and the moon.
Surprisingly, it was only seen by NASA astronomers the day after it passed. The potentially deadly space stone was first observed at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii at 11:24 UTC (23:24 GMT) on November 10th. However, the stone is already drifting away, after passing through Earth on November 9 at around 09:50 UTC (21:50 GMT).
If it has hit Earth, it could be life on Earth could be flattened within a distance of about 3.7 miles (6km) from impact area. The space rocks, measured between 52 - 105 feet (16 and 32m) in diameter, belong to the group of Apollo asteroids, writes The Watchers. Space rocks are not set to pass Earth again until 2125.
The Apollo asteroid is located near the Earth asteroid discovered by the German astronomer Karl Reinmuth in the 1930s. The number of Apollo asteroids known today reaches over 8,000. Nearly 1,500 Apollo asteroids are large enough and probably close enough to Earth to become dangerous asteroids.
In theory all the asteroids around the Earth (NEOs) are monitored by NASA to predict potential impacts.
Each NEO that is more than 100 meters in diameter and passes in 4.6 million miles - 0.05 units of astronomy - is classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHAs). 2017 VL2 is the 48th asteroid we know that has come in a lunar distance Earth since the beginning of this year.
Another much larger asteroid called 3200 Phaethon, measuring three miles (five kilometers) in diameter, is expected to pass through our planet next week on December 16, 2017. Asteroids are classified as potentially dangerous and are estimated to be about 6.4 million miles from our planet - about 27 times the distance between Earth and the moon.
It will be the closest to this asteroid that ever existed on Earth since December 16, 1974, when it was about 5 million miles away.
In a statement about the asteroid, a NASA spokesman said: 'With a diameter of about 5 km, Phaethon is the nearest asteroid-the third largest Earth classified as' Potentially Dangerous '.'
A Nasa spokesman said: 'Phaethon will approach 1,069 au Earth on December 16, 2017 when it will be a strong radar imaging target at Goldstone and Arecibo.
'This will be the best opportunity to know the radar observations of this asteroid and we hope to get a detailed picture.
The next Asteroid that will approach Earth is predicted to occur in 2093.
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