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Asteroid TC4 will pass by the Earth

11.10.2017

Asteroid 2012 TC4 will sweep past the Earth on the night of October 11-12 at a distance slightly more than the length of the equator. It is reported by NASA.

On October 12, a small asteroid, 2012 TC4, will safely pass Earth at a distance of approximately 42 kilometers. That's just over one-tenth the distance to the Moon, and just over the orbital altitude of some communications satellites. The length of the Earth's equator is just over 000 thousand kilometers.

As its name suggests, 2012 TC4 was first discovered in 2012. It is a non-spherical asteroid with a diameter of only about 13 meters. Thus, the size of the celestial body is comparable to the famous meteorite that exploded in February 2013 over the Chelyabinsk region - then 1 people were injured, and material damage amounted to almost 613 thousand rubles. In the event of a collision with the Earth, due to its enormous speed, a new asteroid could cause destruction on the scale of an entire city. However, the probability of its fall to the planet tends to zero, experts are convinced.

Despite the relatively small distance to the Earth, even at the point of closest approach, it will be possible to see the meteorite only with the help of a powerful telescope.

NASA notes that according to their calculations, in the next 100 years, not a single celestial body will collide with the Earth.

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