A huge asteroid called 'Asteroid 86 666' is en route to planet earth.
The 2.5-kilometer-wide space rock is on October 10 the closest to the earth. An asteroid of this size can have a devastating effect on Earth, but NASA has been assured that the asteroid poses no threat.
Comets and asteroids
All asteroids in the Earth 30 million miles pass, be monitored by NASA. Therefore both using telescopes on the ground and in space.
Through a special program, the space agency keeps the orbits of comets and asteroids in the gaps. Alerts are published when these rocks collide with earth or there come close.
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People comets and asteroids can also monitor by entering the name of the stone in the database of the program, which is available online.
It is seen that the orbits of the asteroid 86 666 'and earth from early September reasonably seem to coincide. This weekend room stone and planet closest to each other in the neighborhood. It is fortunately not dangerous, so NASA assured al.
by Jurgen van der Hoeven / metronieuws.nl/ © NASA
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