No Worries as Asteroid Near Earth Flies By
The world survived another fairly large asteroid near Earth today, as Asteroid 1999 FN53 made its travel past our planet about 7:25 am EST. While its travel sparked some worries and concerns via Internet chatter that it could hit the Earth, NASA (www.nasa.gov) scientists weren’t concerned because they have been studying this asteroid for 16 years and knew it would not hit our planet.
This is the closest the asteroid will pass near Earth until 2034, but it really wasn’t that close. It was making a flight past the Earth at two-tenths the orbital distance of the planet Neptune and at its closest point the asteroid was at nearly seven percent of the space between our Sun and Earth. In other words, the Asteroid FN53 was about 10-million kilometers away from the Earth, so saying it was an
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Instead, this asteroid was more than 10-million kilometers from the Earth when it traveled past it this morning.
However, NASA is still studying Asteroid 1999 FN53 via the NEOWISE satellite (neo.jpl.nasa.gov/programs/neowise.html), which has been watching it since the middle of April. In doing so, they determined that it has a diameter of about 900 meters. They also used instruments from Puerto Rico’s Arecibo radio telescope and Goldstone, California’s radio-dish satellite network to get data on the asteroid.
Data Assists in Planetary Protection of the Earth
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