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Nasa: Potentially dangerous asteroid will fly close to Earth Tuesday night

Astronomers are closely monitoring an asteroid that will pass Earth tonight.

The asteroid, called 7483, or 1994 PC1, is expected to fly because our planet around 22.51 on Tuesday Norwegian time.

Potentially dangerous

It is measured to be twice the size of the Empire State Building in New York, and will pass the earth about five times the distance from the earth to the moon.

This causes Nasa to categorize the asteroid as a potentially dangerous object, writes Fox News. Even if it will not hit the earth.

– The asteroid 1994 PC1 is very well known and has been studied for decades by our #PlanetaryDefense experts. Be safe, 1994 PC1 will fly safely past our planet 1.9 million kilometers away next Tuesday 18 January “, Nasa tweeted last Wednesday.

According to Nasa, the asteroid has a diameter of about 1050 meters, and will fly because at a speed of over 72,000 kilometers per hour.

Two centuries until next time

The asteroid was discovered in 1994 at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia in 1994 by Robert McNaught.

According to Universe Today, an astronomy news site, the asteroid will not come so close to Earth again until in two centuries.

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