Network telescopes MSU detect hazardous asteroid (google translate) Russias only network of robotic telescopes MASTER created by Lomonosov Moscow State University University in collaboration with the three domestic universities (Ekaterinburg, Irkutsk and Blagoveshchensk), Kislovodsk Station of the Pulkovo Observatory RAS and the University of San Juan (Argentina), an asteroid discovered in 2014 UR116, - more than 300 meters in diameter - which can collide with the Earth. This was reported by the laboratory site space monitoring MSU. At night, October 27 Russian robotic telescope , located in the Caucasus Mountains near Kislovodsk, gave a suspicious rapidly moving object (see. picture below the text - between shots a few minutes). Denis Denisenko, a member team of craftsmen, sent it to the coordinates of the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union. 20 minutes later, the British astronomer confirmed our observation, and for the last two days, astronomers have conducted more than 100 measurements of this object. Based on the data of the brilliance of the found object and distance calculated from observations of two dozen observatories in the world, we can say that the asteroid 2014 UR116 size exceeds Apophis with the Earth can meet in the next decade, that is, its diameter is greater than 300 meters. Exact trajectory of the asteroid 2014 UR116 yet impossible to determine, but theoretically it could collide with the Earth, and Mars and Venus. The energy of the explosion, in the event of a collision with the Earth, a thousand times greater than the explosion of Chelyabinsk asteroid. Source ~ tinyurl/od6shbn RT news article ~ tinyurl/nqlplkz
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 00:33:09 +0000
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