On Monday, March 13, an asteroid approximately 17 meters in diameter was discovered, whose size is similar to that of the asteroid that exploded over the Siberian city in 2013. This asteroid will pass close to Earth.
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Similar in size to Chelyabins, the asteroid that exploded like a fireball over the Siberian city, the asteroid this time is about 17 m in diameter and is called 2023 EY.
Recently discovered, 2023 EY is already on NASA's Asteroid Watch Dashboard, which is where asteroids approaching at least 19.5 times the distance from Earth to the Moon (about 4.6 million miles or 7.5 million kilometers) are updated often.
Although the distance seems absurd to most of us, large asteroids that are close to this point are a potentially dangerous warning.
“2023 EY is not large enough to pose a threat, so it is off the hazard alert. The 17-meter-diameter asteroid will pass at a distance of 149,000 miles or 240,000 kilometers from Earth, which corresponds to two-thirds of the distance between Earth and the Moon.
The event was broadcast on The Virtual Telescope Project's WebTV and YouTube channel at 00:00 UTC on March 17 (8:00 pm EDT on March 16). The transmission was made thanks to a robotic telescope located in central Italy.
For those who don't know, asteroids are nothing more than rocky remains from the formation of our planet. solar system, which are usually located in the asteroid belt between the planets Mars and Jupiter.
In the case of EY 2023, it is an Apollo-type asteroid, that is, it is an asteroid that has an orbit greater than that of Earth, causing its path to eventually cross with that of our planet.
The discovery of EY 2023 was made 4 days before its passage thanks to an ATLAS-type telescope (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System), located at the Sutherland Observation Station in Africa southern.