It was first spotted by Gennady Borisov, the same amateur astronomer in Crimea who discovered an interstellar comet in 2019. ( NewsNation) NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office announced it has been tracking a new asteroid that could potentially hit Earth on. This year astronomers pretended that they had discovered an asteroid with a slight probability of hitting Earth in just six months. "In fact, this is one of the closest approaches by a known near-Earth object ever recorded." Asteroid spotted by amateur astronomer in Crimeaĭiscovered Saturday, the asteroid known as 2023 BU is believed to be 3.5 to 8.5 metres across. 2010 RF12 tops Nasas watch-list in terms of the probability of Earth impact There is a 4.7 chance of a hit by the asteroid, which is estimated to measure 7m in diameter Nasa predicts that the. "But despite the very few observations, it was nonetheless able to predict that the asteroid would make an extraordinarily close approach with Earth," Farnocchia said in a statement. NASA's impact hazard assessment system, called Scout, quickly ruled out a strike, said its developer, Davide Farnocchia, an engineer at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The odds of Bennu striking Earth have risen from one in. A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a small chance of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a potential impact on Valentine’s Day in 2046. Moonshots, meteors and planets: Here are just a few things to look forward to in space in 2023Įven if the space rock came a lot closer, scientists said most of it would burn up in the atmosphere, with some of the bigger pieces possibly falling as meteorites. The chances of one of the most hazardous asteroids in the solar system hitting Earth are higher than previously thought, NASA has said.
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