Specifically, all asteroids with a minimum orbit intersection distance (MOID) of 0.05 au or less are considered PHAs,” NASA said in a statement.NASA also stated that even if asteroids are classified as PHAs it will not necessarily impact the Earth. On July 24, a huge asteroid, dubbed as Asteroid 2020 ND, is all set to fly near Earth’s surface.

6.5 feet, and poses no threat to Earth! NASA also said explaining the asteroid in a statement that the distance from the Earth categories this asteroid as “potentially dangerous”.“Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are currently defined based on parameters that measure the asteroid’s potential to make threatening close approaches to the Earth. — NASA Asteroid Watch (@AsteroidWatch) August 23, 2020 order back issues and use the historic Daily Express The asteroid is roughly 30 metres long, making it easily bigger than a double-decker bus and will come within just 0.3 lunar distance - with one lunar distance being the measurement between the Earth and the Moon - or 71,000 miles of our planet.The likes of NASA have been monitoring the asteroid since it was first discovered in 2011, and today will be its closest approach to date.According to NASA, the asteroid will be at its closest to our planet come 17.12 BST.Astronomy site Space Weather said: "On September 1, asteroid 2011 ES4 will fly through the Earth-Moon system only 72,000 miles from Earth--close, but there is no danger of a collision. It currently has a 0.41% chance of entering our planet’s atmosphere, but if it did, it would disintegrate due to its extremely small size. "NASA also revealed it will be travelling at a staggering speed of 8.2 kilometres per second - or 29,500 kilometres per hour.At this speed, it could travel around the Earth in an hour.But while the asteroid will make its close approach tonight, the distance at which it will buzz Earth from is uncertain, experts say.Astronomers use an 'uncertainty scale' which ranges from zero to nine, in which zero means the orbit is well known while nine means there is great uncertainty in its path.Asteroid 2011 ES4 was only observed for four days after it was first detected on March 2, 2011, and so has an uncertainty of 7.Astronomer Lance Benner, an asteroid expert from NASA/JPL, told EarthSky: "Uncertainty indicates that it could miss Earth by 0.08 au, which is much, much more than one Earth-moon distance. Wednesday. NASA also said explaining the asteroid in a statement that the distance from the Earth categories this asteroid as “potentially dangerous”.Copyright © 2020 The Indian Express [P] Ltd. All Rights Reserved Asteroid 2020 ND Live Updates: Huge 'potentially dangerous' asteroid move past Earth today newspaper archive.Asteroid news: Space rock study reveals origin of Earth’s water NASA tracking huge 'near-Earth' asteroid twice as big as Great PyramidAsteroid bigger than a double-decker bus to whizz past Earth TODAY Preacher claims asteroid before 'apocalyptic' US election is prophetic One AU (149,598,000 km) is the distance between the Earth and the Sun, so come Saturday, the asteroid will be 5,086,327 kilometres from our planet - a hair's width in astronomical terms.The space rock is also travelling at a staggering 13.5 kilometres per second - or 48,000 kilometres per hour.At 0.034 AU, NASA has described the object as a "potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA)".The space agency said: “Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are currently defined based on parameters that measure the asteroid’s potential to make threatening close approaches to the Earth.“Specifically, all asteroids with a minimum orbit intersection distance (MOID) of 0.05 au or less are considered PHAs.”Due to its relative closeness, it is also a near Earth object (NEO), giving the space agency the perfect opportunity to study it.NASA said on its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) website: “NEOs are comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits that allow them to enter the Earth’s neighbourhood.“The scientific interest in comets and asteroids is due largely to their status as the relatively unchanged remnant debris from the solar system formation process some 4.6 billion years ago.“The giant outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) formed from an agglomeration of billions of comets and the left over bits and pieces from this formation process are the comets we see today.“Likewise, today’s asteroids are the bits and pieces left over from the initial agglomeration of the inner planets that include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.”While the chances of a major asteroid hitting Earth are small – NASA believes there is a one in 300,000 chance every year that a space rock which could cause regional damage will hit – the devastating prospect is not impossible.However, there are some plans on the go which could help Earth against potential asteroid strikes.NASA is currently studying Asteroid Bennu, where its OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft arrived in 2018.Part of the reason NASA is sending the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft there is to gather more information about the space rock which is 1,640ft (500m) in length.NASA fears the asteroid, which has the potential to wipe out a country on Earth, could hit our planet within the next 120 years, with the next close flyby in 2135.The mission will give vital information on how to deflect asteroids from their collision course with Earth, but NASA reiterates while there is a small chance Earth could be impacted, “over millions of years, of all of the planets, Bennu is most likely to hit Venus".


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