Large asteroid to zoom between Earth and moon FMTNews FMTWorld
PARIS: A large asteroid will safely zoom between Earth and the moon today, a once-in-a-decade event that will be used as a training exercise for planetary defence efforts, according to the European Space Agency .
At 7.49pm today, it will come within a third of the distance from the Earth to the moon, said Richard Moissl, the head of the ESA’s planetary defence office.Small asteroids fly past every day, but one of this size coming so close to Earth only happens about once every 10 years, he added.The moon is roughly 385,000km away.
The goal is to find out just how much we can learn about such an asteroid in only a week, Moissl said.
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