10-meter asteroid

Tonight will fly near Earth asteroid the size of a bus. Specialists of the National Aerospace Agency (NASA) say that a heavenly body is not dangerous, because the pass about 60 thousand. Km of the planet, which is much higher orbits of geostationary satellites. If the asteroid and enter into the atmosphere, it will burn completely and reaches the earth's surface. An asteroid with a diameter of 10 m was discovered by scientists of January 25, 2012 and was named 2012 BX34. It is part of a group of registered celestial bodies, from time to time, near-Earth (Near Earth Object - NEO). The last time he flies to the planet in 1959. The distance between him and the earth was then 59 thousand. Kilometers. Status potentially dangerous (Potentially Hazardous Asteroids - PHA) object is not received, it means that, at least in the next century it is not necessary to be afraid of. Note that each year in the atmosphere of our planet invades one asteroid with a diameter of several meters. Such asteroids burn up before it reached the Earth, causing a flash in the sky at a height of 30 - 40 kilometers. Asteroids, which may cause a local catastrophe comparable to the Tunguska must have at least 50 m in diameter. These appear in sight once in a hundred years. Global same disaster can cause a celestial body larger than a kilometer in diameter. This can wait a few hundred thousand years.

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