An asteroid that is larger than any building in the world is expected to fly past Earth tomorrow evening.The space rock, which has been named 7482 (1994 PC1), is set to travel at an immense speed of 47,344 miles per hour when it comes within 1.2 million miles away from our planet.NASA has been studying the asteroid for decades and they have found that it measures at more than a kilometre wide - which is taller than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which comes in at 830m tall.
But thankfully the space rock will not phase any threat to Earth when it comes to its closest distance to Earth at around 9.51pm tomorrow evening.The NASA Asteroid Watch team tweeted: “Near-Earth asteroid 1994 PC1 is very well known and has been studied for decades by our #PlanetaryDefense experts.“Rest assured, 1994 PC!
Will safely fly past our planet 1.2 million miles away on Tuesday, January 18.” In November last year, a spacecraft was launched by NASA to crash deliberately into an asteroid for the first time in history.
DART, or Double Asteroid Redirection Test, is a pilot of a new technology to prevent future asteroid collisions such as the type that wiped out the dinosaurs.The scheme is designed to “punch” an asteroid off course and is the first demonstration of a “kinetic impactor technique” – essentially a high-powered gun – which is designed to change the motion of an asteroid in space.Boffins have said that it is inevitable that an asteroid will one day enter our atmosphere at some point.When that happens, Professor Alan Duffy, director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute, urged people not to be too curious.Speaking to the I’ve Got News For You, he said: "I would say the best advice is, for goodness sake, do not look at this thing.
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