Huge asteroid bigger than the Chelyabinsk Approaching Earth: NASA – Latinos Post in Spanish

 First Posted: February 3, 2016 1:41 PM EST

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The US space agency confirmed this week that an asteroid, much like the meteorite that fell in February 2013 near the town Russian Chelyabinsk, will approach the planet Earth during the early days of March 2016.

through its website, NASA said the asteroid called 2013 TX68, which was identified by the first time two years ago, will approach the planet at a distance of only 17,000 kilometers on March 5

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This asteroid has a diameter of about 30 meters, and now the celestial body is at a distance of 14 million kilometers from Earth. Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of Poasadena in California have reported, however, that there is a small chance of colliding with Earth, although it is very low.

According rescues ABC its website, NASA scientists said that although it is unlikely that the asteroid colliding with Earth in 2016, the asteroid could hit the planet itself in future flybys during 2017 (unlikely) or 2046 and 2097.

There are less than one in 250 million chance that the asteroid 2013 TX68 colliding with Earth in 2017, and although the odds are very low, the researchers say they will continue their observations to completely rule out any danger to the earth.

“the chances of a collision in any of the three future dates overflight are too small to be considered a real concern for the moment. I’m waiting for future observations to further reduce the likelihood” said Paul Chodas, manager of NASA Center for NEO studies in the jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, stands the World Science Report.

if the asteroid collided with Earth, release twice as much energy than during the Chelyabinsk meteorite impact, the scientists of NASA.

on February 15, 2013 a meteorite with a diameter of about 17 meters entered the atmosphere the earth. As a result, a violent explosion occurred in the atmosphere at an altitude of 30-50 km, which led to the downfall of many fragments over a wide area of ​​the Russian region of Chelyabinsk.

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