Space is the final frontier and even with the great strides in technology that NASA has made over the decades, space is continually displaying its fluid and untamable nature. This particular asteroid is named 2013 TX68 and was discovered three years ago, which is
“This asteroid’s orbit is quite uncertain, and it will be hard to predict where to look for it,” Paul Chodas of NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies said in a statement.
“There is a chance that the asteroid will be picked up by our asteroid search telescopes when it safely flies past us next month, providing us with data to more precisely define its orbit around the sun,” Chodas added.
The next flyby for 2013 TX68 will be in September of 2017, when it will have a one in 250,000,000 chance of Earthly impact. By comparison, the odds of winning the $1 billion Powerball jackpot last month were one in 292,000,000. NASA predicts the following flybys in 2046 and 2097 will be even less likely to end in collision.
How big is it?
Preliminary estimates of the size of asteroid 2013 TX68 suggest the space rock has a diameter of 38 meters (125 ft), which is more than twice the size of the Chelyabinsk meteor that entered over Russian skies in February, 2013.
If a space rock of this size were to enter our atmosphere, it would produce a shock wave at least twice as intense as that of the Chelyabinsk meteor, which broke windows in six Russian cities – caused more than 1,500 people to seek medical care, mostly due to cuts from flying glass – and did other damage to thousands of buildings.
Asteroid 2013 TX68 is travelling at a speed of 32,212 miles per hour (51,840 km/h).
Asteroid 2013 TX68 could fly past Earth as far as 14,000,000 km or as close as 17,000 km https://t.co/GiFObEjCHO pic.twitter.com/fRGLwcgKeG
— asteroidgc (@asteroidgc) February 3, 2016
Planetary defense: NASA creates office to oversee asteroid detection https://t.co/wPrGilfGZF pic.twitter.com/IcJyRVeJpJ — RT America (@RT_America) January 8, 2016
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God calls it wormwood
Its waiting for election results before it decides to wipe us off the earth……
Very little truth,b****r all action.
Very little truth,b****r all action.
Hit Washington please
Can we? Can we please? Please just land on my house… At least i will know 1/2 or all of the idiots in my city will go with me. “Make America great again… … ASTERIODS”!
lol, I told my husband 2 months ago, something was gonna happen March. Looks like was right. Thank you Jesus.