Jakarta – The ‘City Killer’ asteroid passes Earth. The asteroid is already at its closest position, namely 1.77 million miles or around 2.848 million km on February 6 2024.
As quoted by detikInet, the distance from Earth to the Moon is 384,400 km. This means the asteroid is around 7.4 times farther than the distance from Earth to the Moon.
Launching Science Alert, Wednesday (7/2/2024) the asteroid in question is Asteroid 2008 OS7. He has a speed of around 41,000 mph or the equivalent of 65,983 km/hour. Its length reaches 890 feet or 271 meters. Experts sometimes call asteroids of this size ‘city killers’ because these asteroids are capable of destroying entire cities if they collide with Earth.
Furthermore, this asteroid would be too small and far away to be seen without a telescope. It will be 10,000 times fainter than the faintest stars visible to the naked eye, according to astrophysicist and scientific director of the Virtual Telescope Project, Gianluca Masi.
But if you are curious and want to see it, Masi and his colleagues recorded the event live starting at 1 pm local time. You can watch the live broadcast on YouTube or in the video below.
This article has appeared on detikInet, read in full here.
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2024-02-08 19:30:10
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