asteroid collides with Earth is about
NASA reported that an asteroid will pass close to Earth Asteroid 2005 YU55
be close to 200 thousand miles , on 8 November. Ensure that no threat of collision to the Earth.
NASA reported that an asteroid 2005 YU55 about 400 meters in diameter, which is part of the list of potentially dangerous objects, will approach 200,000 km from Earth on November 8. So informed
Project Near Earth Objects (NEO, for its acronym in English) of NASA, and explained that the approach will be an excellent opportunity to take data with radar and optical infrared devices.
to Don Yeomans, manager of NEO, told the English newspaper ABC that when it happens you can get radar images at a resolution even higher than that obtained by recent missions to study asteroids.
On its website, NEO has a little animation that shows the travels that the asteroid.
Data. The year 2005 will YU55 its orbital path around the Earth for 20 hours, between 8 and 9 November, but will be the first day when the radar Goldstone Observatory in the Mojave desert can get 8 hours or more the best data.
The Goldstone, operated by the University of Arizona, will seek to reconstruct the comet with its resolution of 4 meters, adding radar and infrared data thus know more about the topography and mineral composition.
The NEO reported that after 21:00 hours UT are closer to our planet on its way east from the Atlantic to western Africa. However it will be a challenge on their way by the speed with which travel.
Although classified as a potentially dangerous object, 2005 YU55 not a collision threat to Earth, or any other object in the next 100 years.
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