According to NASA, the humongous asteroid is bigger than the famous London Eye which is 443 feet high and will make its closest approach to Earth on July 24, reported Birmingham Live.
NASA warns A Giant Asteroid Coming toward Earth.Giant Asteroid bigger than the famous London Eye to fly pass Earth on July 24,2020
Asteroid 24 July 2020: This week a giant asteroid is coming towards the Earth at a fast pace. On Friday, July 24, it will be near the Earth. The US space agency NASA warns that this asteroid can be potentially dangerous. It is also large in size and fast in speed. It is at least one and a half times the size of the UK's famous landmark - the London Eye. It may be about 50 percent larger than the London Eye. The London Eye is a wheel measuring 443 meters high, which means that the asteroid can be even larger. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has warned that the way this 'huge asteroid' is moving towards Earth, it cannot be taken lightly. It has been marked as "potentially dangerous", Because it can cause a dangerous effect for the Earth. It is named Asteroidal 2020ND by the Space Agency.
The year 2020 hascreated an uproar around the world. In addition, as far as science is concerned, in 2020, there is a lot of disruption in astronomy.NASA is constantly issuing its facts and warnings. Outer space has been reported numerous strange things. This year, despite many eclipses and lunar eclipses in the sky, there have been lots of hull-chill creation in the space.
Asteroid Facts:
- Asteroids are miniature, rocky objects that revolve around the Sun.
- In 1801, the first asteroid called Ceres was discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
- Currently, there are more than 8,30,000 known asteroids in our solar system.
- “Star-like” asteroid term first given by Astronomer William Herschel in 1802.
- Current theory shows that planetoids are planetesimals (object formed by rock, dust, and other materials)–the structural blocks of planets–that never incorporated in one of the eight planets in our solar system.
- Apollo objects are asteroids whose orbit passes through the Earth’s orbit.
- Most asteroids are different in shape because they are too small to exert enough gravity to become spherical.
- Ceres is the first asteroid discovered also known as the largest asteroid with 933 kilometers (580 miles) across. The smallest known asteroid, BA 1991, is only 6 meters (20 feet) across.
- Planetoid about .1 miles wide is believed to have exploded over Siberia, causing damage within a radius of hundreds of miles.
- Most asteroids orbit asteroid belts, which are a series of rings between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
“Currently, potentially hazardous asteroids (PHA) are defined based on parameters that measure the potential of asteroids to threaten a close approach to Earth”, Birmingham Live quoted the space agency said.
It further appended that specifically, all planetoids with a minimum orbit crossing distance (MOID) less than or equal to 0.05 au are considered to be PHA”.
Recently, NASA said on its Jet Propulsion Laboratory website that Near-Earth objects are asteroids and comets that are attracted to the orbit by the gravity of nearby planets, causing them to enter the vicinity of the earth. The scientific interest of planets, especially asteroids and comets are relatively unchanged debris from the formation of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago because of their status.
The agency informing about asteroids nature stated that the huge outer giant planets or exoplanets (Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, and Neptune) formed by the cluster of billions of comets, and the fragments left over from the formation process are the comets what we see today. Moreover, today’s asteroids are sporadic fragments remaining after the initial coalescence of inner planets including Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
24 JULY 2020 END OF EARTH OR NOT
Asteroid 2020 ND
As per NASA data, the Asteroid 2020 ND's first recorded approach to Earth was on July 17, 1945, and it has since passed by the planet four more times and will now cross us again on July 24, 2020. After July 24, it is set to blow past Earth in 2035, then 2074, and then 2145 and so on.
NASA doesn't consider Asteroid 2020 ND a key scientific target. That designation is reserved for asteroids like 101955 Bennu, 10199 Chariklo, 16 Psyche, 243 Ida, 25143 Itokawa, 253 Mathilde, 433 Eros, and 4 Vesta.
As mentioned, Asteroid 2020 ND is around 160 meters in diameter and at its closest approach it will be 5,570,000 kms from Earth. To offer you some context on the distance, average distance between Earth and Moon is 385,000 kms. So, the asteroid is pretty far away to do any harm.
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