United States Space Agency (NASA) to ensure asteroid named 2005 YU55 it does not harm the Earth and can be seen with the naked eye.
The shortest distance is 325,000 km nearest asteroid will occur on Tuesday (8 / 11) at around 23:23 GMT or about 6:00 pm, Wednesday (9 / 11).
This distance is the shortest distance trajectory of an asteroid with the Earth during the last 200 years.
"This is the track with the closest distance we had known before," saidNASA scientist Propulsion Laboratory, Lance Benner.
This asteroid is also the largest space rocks that cross the Earth since1976. Other large asteroid will pass on the upcoming 2028.
Do not hit Earth
Asteroids for an aircraft carrier is dark and spins on its axis once every 20hours as it passed in outer space.
Although the trajectory of this asteroid is the closest celestial body but certainly will not fall hit Earth.
"Asteroid 2005 YU55 will not hit Earth, at least in the timeframe anticipatedour computer which is about several hundred years," added Benner.
However, the passage of the asteroid 2005 YU55 This gives an opportunity for scientists to examine in more detail an asteroid.
In fact, says NASA, amateur astronomers can see these asteroids with the15cm telescope size.
While professional scientists will examine the asteroid with the help of the Goldstone Observatory in California and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
Earth several times visited 2005 YU55, which is also known by the name of the asteroid Apophis. Asterioid is predicted very likely hit the Earth as it passed back in 2029 or 2036.
On 13 April 2029, Apophis will pass with the estimated distance from the Earth only 29.500km.
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