Potentially hazardous asteroid surprises astronomers Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour, could be still an actual description of our ability to predict asteroid threats to Earth. The sentence from the Bible (Matthew 25:13) sound like a reminder of a vast number of more than 1,500 currently potentially hazardous objects, floating in space, meandering around in the Solar System. Some of them may be destined to pay our planet a close visit someday, unexpectedly, Chelyabinsk-style, as the one that hit Russia in February 2013, causing serious damages and injuring about 1,500 people. Who would have predicted that? Lately, one of the potentially hazardous asteroids, named 2014 UR116, created quite a buzz when various media reported that the 370-wide space rock may hit Earth. Its impact would cause an explosion 1,000 times greater than the Chelyabinsk meteor. But the discoverer of 2014 UR116, Vladimir Lipunov, a professor at Moscow State University, becalms the public. This asteroid will not collide with Earth during the next 100 years, Lipunov told astrowatch.net. phys.org/news/2014-12-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-astronomers.html
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:30:15 +0000
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