Divine warning or just a coincidence? A potentially dangerous asteroid will pass tomorrow near Earth "the steroid appears to be wearing a face mask"

Asteroid (52768) 1998 OR2 Spalding Today

An asteroid with an estimated size of 2 kilometers will pass near Earth tomorow on April 29, at 9.56 GMT dont worry the risk of collision being excluded.

As a unique detail in the images captured by astronomers, the asteroid appears to be wearing a face mask. 

Asteroid 52768 (1998 OR2), discovered by NASA in 1998 will travel at a distance of about 6.2 million kilometers from Earth, at a speed of about 31,300 kilometers per hour.If it collided with Earth, the asteroid would cause "global effects," NASA officials said after discovering the cosmic object.

Radar image of asteroid 1998 OR2 acquired April 18, 2020, by astronomers at Arecibo Observatory. The radar data confirm that 1998 OR2 is at least 2 km in diameter [a little over a mile wide]. These radar images suggest it is spherical. It rotates once every 4.1 hours. Image via Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

In a completely unique way, in the images captured by the specialists from the Arecibo Astronomical Observatory in Puerto Rico, the asteroid seems to be wearing a face protection mask, according to CNN. The asteroid was included by NASA in the "potentially dangerous" category, like any other spacecraft approaching Earth at less than 7,480,000 kilometers.  descopera

The Arecibo Observatory wikipedia

According to information available to specialists to date, the largest asteroid that has passed Earth is 3122 Florence (1981 ET3). The object with a size of about 4-9 kilometers passed our planet on September 1, 2017 and is still expected to "visit" us on September 2, 2057.

3122 Florence is a stony trinary asteroid of the Amor group. It is classified as a near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid. It measures approximately 5 kilometers in diameter. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 1.0–2.5 AU once every 2 years and 4 months (859 days); the orbit has an eccentricity of 0.42 and an inclination of 22° with respect to the ecliptic. Florence was discovered on 2 March 1981 by American astronomer Schelte J. "Bobby" Bus at Siding Spring Observatory.[3] Its provisional designation was 1981 ET3. It was named in honor of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing the naming citation was published on 6 April 1993 wiki



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2016 WF9 An unidentified object with a width of one kilometer will pass by Earth next month. NASA scientists are confused

2016 WF9 (artist rendition) photo: wikipedia An artist’s rendition of 2016 WF9 as it passes Jupiter’s orbit inbound toward the sun. JPL manages NEOWISE for NASA's Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington. The Space Dynamics Laboratory in Logan, Utah, built the science instrument. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colorado, built the spacecraft. Science operations and data processing take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

A mysterious object will fly above the earth in the next month (February 2017). His features are so unusual that researchers at NASA failed to find out what it is, according IFL Science.

The object was named WF9 2016 was observed in NEOWISE project of NASA, on November 27, 2016. Researchers say it may have at least one kilometers wide. Most will approach Earth on February 25, reaching a distance of 51 million kilometers.

Orbit of 2016 WF9 on 25 February 2017, closest approach to Earth photo: wikipedia

The object caused confusion among researchers at NASA, because they do not know whether it is an asteroid or a comet. In general, asteroids are more rocky and metallic, while comets have ice in their composition, their notes IFL Science.


,, 2016 WF9 could be a comet. This article illustrates that the boundary between asteroid and comet is very small, '' James Bauer supports NASA.

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