An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will whip past Earth on Thursday night, one of the closest such encounters ever recorded.
NASA says while it will be close, there is no risk the delivery truck-sized asteroid will hit the planetA diagram made available by NASA shows the estimated trajectory of asteroid 2023 BU, in red, affected by Earth's gravity, and the orbit of geosynchronous satellites, in green. The U.S. space agency says the asteroid will zoom past the southern tip of South America Thursday evening.The U.S.
Even if the space rock came a lot closer, scientists said most of it would burn up in the atmosphere, with some of the bigger pieces possibly falling as meteorites. NASA's impact hazard assessment system, called Scout, quickly ruled out a strike, said its developer, Davide Farnocchia, an engineer at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
"But despite the very few observations, it was nonetheless able to predict that the asteroid would make an extraordinarily close approach with Earth," Farnocchia said in a statement.Asteroid spotted by amateur astronomer in CrimeaIt was first spotted by Gennady Borisov, the same amateur astronomer in Crimea who discovered an interstellar comet in 2019.Within a few days, dozens of observations were made by astronomers around the world, allowing them to refine the asteroid's orbit.
The asteroid's path will be drastically altered by Earth's gravity once it zips by. Instead of circling the sun every 359 days, it will move into an oval orbit lasting 425 days, according to NASA.
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