![]() ![]() You can follow the broadcast live through the Virtual TelescopeYouTube channel, which will start broadcasting around 4 :15 pm Thursday. This will make it the fourth closest asteroid (excluding the five discovered before their subsequent impact). The minimum distance will be reached on January 27 at 00:26 UTC (7:26 pm ET), when the asteroid will fly roughly 2,200 miles (3,600 kilometers) above the Earth’s surface (specifically, the southern tip of South America) and within the orbit of global satellites. Not surprisingly, it is one of the “closest approaches of an object to Earth known ever recorded,” explains Davide Farnocchia, navigation engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Soon after its discovery, NASA scientists ruled out that it could hit Earth, although they did confirm that it would come “extraordinarily” close. □□☄️ more: /rL2ubGJ6R4- Virtual Telescope JanuHow to follow it live We capture it minutes ago and will show it live to you at the flyby time! Here it is asteroid 2023 BU, safely coming extremely close to us in a couple of days (10.000km from Earth0s center, 1/4 of the distance of geostationary sats). And if there were, the agency adds, “it would become a fireball and disintegrate largely harmlessly in the atmosphere, and some of the larger debris could fall as little meteorites.” According to scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the asteroid will pass at a minimum distance of 6,200 miles (10,000 kilometers) from the center of the planet.Īn approximation of less than 3% of the average lunar distance and therefore, adds NASA, there is no risk of collision. ![]() At the time the images were taken, 2023 BU was about 36,000 miles (58,000 kilometers) from Earth, heading towards our planet. The experts were able to capture it thanks to the robotic unit ‘Elena’ (PlaneWave 17″ + Paramount ME + SBIG STL-6303E), with a time exposure of 300 seconds. He found it from his observatory in Crimea (Ukraine, although in Russian possession), it measures between 11.5 to 28 feet (3.4 and 8.4 meters) and has been named 2023 BU. It was just a few days ago, on January 21st, when the amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov discovered that an asteroid would pass very close to Earth within the next few days. ![]()
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