Monster asteroid three times bigger than WEMBLEY STADIUM in 'close' encounter in DAYS
A MONSTER asteroid more than three times bigger than Wembley Stadium is set to approach Earth in days. NASA says the "potentially hazardous" 2017 VR12 is going to whizz by at around 7.53am on Wednesday. And it has also been listed on the International Astronomical Union's list of "potentially hazardous" space rocks. But it is one of the closest asteroids of the year so far, and is to come much closer than the 2002 AJ129 which flew by on February 4 at a distance of 2,615,128 miles away. The University of Buckingham research fellow is convinced snaps taken by the Curiosity rover show trace fossils on Mars.
The Huge 2017 VR12 Asteroid Will Pass Next To Earth On Wednesday
The asteroid measures a stunning diameter of more than 470 meters (rock spans up to an astonishing 470 meters (1,542 ft) and will pass close to the Earth at a speed of 22 678 km/h (14,092 mph). The 2017 VR12 asteroid is about three times larger than a football field and the huge space rock is even bigger than the Golden Gate Bridge, the renown San Francisco which has about 230 meters over the water. Besides, 2017 VR12 asteroid is also cataloged by NASA and the International Astronomical Union on the possible dangerous asteroids’ list. The 2017 VR12 asteroid will whizz by closer than the February 4th fly of the 2002 AJ129 asteroid NASA astronomers stated that the 2017 VR12 space rock will pass next to the Earth at a distance of approximately 1,450,000 (about 900,000 miles) which equals to approximately 3.8 lunar distances (3.8 times the distance between Earth and Moon). Besides the 2002 AJ129 asteroid (also a big hazardous asteroid) which passed at almost 2,616,000 miles away from the Earth on February 4th, the 2017 VR12 asteroid which will whizz by on Wednesday will be much closer to Earth but still will not represent any danger.
SpaceX: Making Asteroid Mining A World-changing Reality
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, the world’s most powerful rocket launched three weeks ago, could make the sci-fi dream of asteroid mining a reality. According to Dr. Martin Elvis, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Heavy’s disruptive power can make near-Earth asteroid mining possible. On the other hand, the iron alone found in the ‘M-type’ (metallic) asteroid 16 Psyche (pronounced SYKe-ee), which is around 200km (120 milles) in diameter and made up of iron, nickel and a number of other rare metals, including gold, platinum and copper, is worth an estimated $10 quintillion. According to NASA, if we could extract all of the minerals from 16 Psyche, one of the ten most massive asteroids in the asteroid belt, the total value would be enough to give every individual on Earth about $100 billion.
This asteroid could be bigger than the Empire State Building—and it's about to pass Earth
Astronomers can guess the object’s size from its brightness, but this can produce a wide range of results. The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops, initially stood about 480 ft tall. This means it could outstretch the Empire State Building’s 1450 ft height. Even at its smallest estimate, the asteroid outstretches the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, which, historians think, was a measly 480 ft tall (or 280 Egyptian Royal cubits) when first built. Astronomers have a much better idea of the object's orbit than its size.
A bus-size asteroid will whiz by Earth Friday
The asteroid will fly within 70,000 miles (113,000 kilometers) of Earth on March 2, 2018. The newfound near-Earth asteroid, called 2018 DV1, is about the size of a bus and will approach within 70,000 miles (113,000 kilometers) of Earth during its flyby, according to scientists with NASA's Asteroid Watch program. The Virtual Telescope Project will host a free webcast, led by astrophysicist Gianluca Masi in Ceccano, Italy, for the event. That asteroid got within about 196,000 miles (315,000 km) of Earth during that flyby. The asteroid will be nearly 870,000 miles (1.4 million km) from Earth at its closest point during the flyby.
A Bus-Size Asteroid Will Whiz by Earth Friday
The newfound near-Earth asteroid, called 2018 DV1, is about the size of a bus and will approach within 70,000 miles (113,000 kilometers) of Earth during its flyby, according to scientists with NASA's Asteroid Watch program. The asteroid is about 23 feet (7 meters) wide, the program's asteroid-tracking widget stated. The Virtual Telescope Project will host a free webcast, led by astrophysicist Gianluca Masi in Ceccano, Italy, for the event. The Virtual Telescope Project is also tracking another asteroid, called 2017 VR12, as it makes its own close flyby of Earth on March 7. The asteroid will be nearly 870,000 miles (1.4 million km) from Earth at its closest point during the flyby.
Bus-sized asteroid will fly by Earth tomorrow
Currently Nasa would not be able to deflect an asteroid if it were heading for Earth but it could mitigate the impact and take measures that would protect lives and property. Finding out about the orbit trajectory, size, shape, mass, composition and rotational dynamics would help experts determine the severity of a potential impact. The impact would change the speed of a threatening asteroid by a small fraction of its total velocity, but by doing so well before the predicted impact, this small nudge will add up over time to a big shift of the asteroid's path away from Earth. The energy - which was equivalent to 500,000 tonnes of TNT - and injured more than 1,000 people Currently Nasa would not be able to deflect an asteroid if it were heading for Earth but it could mitigate the impact and take measures that would protect lives and property. The impact would change the speed of a threatening asteroid by a small fraction of its total velocity, but by doing so well before the predicted impact, this small nudge will add up over time to a big shift of the asteroid's path away from Earth.
An asteroid will fly extremely close to Earth on Friday
An asteroid is going to come extremely close to Earth on Friday—and everything is going to be absolutely fine. Based on calculations in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Small-Body Database, though, the asteroid has likely come close to Earth once every few years. This is the closest in decades that it has ever or is expected to ever come, though. (Counterintuitively, the lower the magnitude is, the bigger the asteroid is expected to be.) 2018 DV1 falls short of the magnitude criteria, so it’s extremely unlikely that it would actually do any damage even if it did plummet to Earth. 2018 DV1 is actually expected to stop by earth again on February 26, 2019—though that time, relatively speaking, it’s expected to keep its distance a bit more.


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