The asteroid is 1.5 km wide, is one of the large space rocks recently discovered in Earth's orbits. He was titled 2022 AP7 and is located on the opposite side of the Sun.
It and two others were identified using the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, which was described in a study published September 29 in The Astronomical Journal.
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The great world powers and scholars constantly invest in possibilities to prevent space catastrophes. The study's lead author, Scott Sheppard, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC, said these asteroids can generate a total extinction if they collide with Earth. They observe them through the Dark Energy Camera of the Cerro Tololo Víctor M Telescope. Blanco of 4 meters in the interior of the solar system.
As the sun's glare is intense, observations occur only in two 10-minute twilight windows. And due to this difficulty, in addition to the 25 asteroids already identified within Earth's orbit, there are still many more unidentified ones.
NASA's space agency tracks and flags any object that comes within 193 million km of Earth. And she has already estimated the trajectories of all near-Earth objects by the end of the century. So far the Earth has not faced any danger of an apocalyptic collision, which does not nullify the possibility, but that doesn't mean they stop looking and look for ways to divert possible collisions.
