Watch out, an asteroid the size of Big Ben will cross Earth next week

JAKARTA – NASA detects a asteroid as big as Big Ben which is expected to hurtle closer to Earth next week. It is predicted that the asteroid will reach its closest distance to Earth on October 6, 2021.

Reported from Express.co.uk, Saturday (2/10/2221), the asteroid that will approach the earth is called Asteroid 1998 SD9 with a size of about 144 and 325 feet. By comparison, Big Ben in London measures 315 feet.

This asteroid had been detected by NASA a few weeks earlier. NASA issued a warning because any fast-moving space object with a distance of 4.65 million miles around Earth is considered potentially dangerous.

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Scheduled for October 6th, asteroid 1998 SD9 will approach Earth but only from a safe distance of 2.5 million miles. NASA saw its closest trajectory to earth at around 19:53 UTC.

Previously, the earth had just been crossed by the asteroid 2021 SG, half the size of the Egyptian Pyramids, on September 16, 2021, because it was not detected by NASA.

NASA claims to have problems monitoring asteroid 2021 SG because it comes from the blind spot of all scientists, namely the sun. When the asteroid comes from the sun it will be very difficult to see because the light blocks the view.

With all the tools scientists have to detect asteroids, NASA currently has no way of detecting them asteroid close to the sun.

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“Sooner or later we will have a small or big impact from an asteroid,” Rolf Densing, who heads the European Space Operations Center (ESOC) in Darmstadt, told AFP.

However, Densing ensures that it will not happen in the near future. But the risk that Earth will be hit by a catastrophic asteroid disaster someday is very high.

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