A huge asteroid will cross the Earth next week

NASA's Near-Earth Objects Center hopes NASA will safely cross the Earth with a giant dome larger than New York State's famous Empire State Building next week. The diameter of this immense rock (2006 QQ 23) is about 561 meters.

Potential risk
The asteroid, detected for the first time in 2006, will arrive at the closest point to Earth on August 10 at 3:23 am EDT.

This is 0.094 astronomical unit (4.6 million miles) of land at a speed of about 10,400 miles per hour.

Space rock is clbadified as an object close to the Earth, a term for any asteroid or comet that takes its orbit 121 million kilometers from the sun and about 30 million kilometers from the Earth.

The NASA center calculates orbits of known objects close to Earth to determine if any of them is likely to touch the Earth at some point in the future. Objects whose distance should be less than 0.05 astronomical unit and whose potential diameter is greater than 138 meters are considered a "potential danger", but it is unlikely that they have a realistic chance of finding themselves in danger. collide with the Earth in the near future.

Frequent visitor
The scientists at the center imagine a rare scenario of what a giant space rock could do if it hit the Earth.

It caused damage to the regional scale if it hit the ground or a mbadive tsunami that could cause significant damage to the lowlands when it hit the ocean. In addition, the impact can lead to global climate change.

This is not the first close encounter of the QQ-23 asteroid with the Earth, it is good for a frequent visitor. It was his first land approach on January 13, 1991 and his next flight will fly over the Earth on February 15, 2022.