According to NASA, an asteroid named 7335 (1989 JA) will pass through our planet, traveling about 2.5 million miles (4 million kilometers), or nearly 10 times the average distance between the Earth and the Moon.
Considering the enormous size of the space rock (1.1 miles or 1.8 km in diameter) and relatively close to Earth. NASA classifies the asteroid as “potentially dangerous”, which means it could cause enormous damage to our planet if it orbited. always changing Time and stone hit the earth
According to NASA, 7335 (1989 JA) is the largest asteroid to come close to Earth this year. Scientists estimate that the asteroid is moving at a speed of 47,200. mph (76,000 km/h) or “20 times faster than a bullet speed”
7335 (1989 JA) is also classified as an Apollo-class asteroid, which refers to an asteroid that orbits the Sun while periodically passing through the Earth’s orbit, Live Science previously reported. About 15,000 such asteroids are known to astronomers.
NASA is closely monitoring NEO and recently launched a mission to test whether a potentially dangerous asteroid could one day deviate from a collision with Earth. In November 2021, NASA launched a spacecraft called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which will collide with the 525-foot (160-meter) wide asteroid Dimorphos in the fall of 2022. The collision will not destroy. The asteroid, however, may slightly change the rock’s orbital path.
This isn’t the first time this asteroid has passed through Earth. In May 2020, a giant space rock traversed the planet at a distance of about 2.75 million km. It is not expected to come back that close to Earth until May 1620.
However, it is not uncommon for such large asteroids to move closer to Earth. Experts calculated that an asteroid with a diameter of about 100 meters that hit the Earth could generate an explosion 10 times the eruption of a Jan. 14 volcanic eruption in Tonga.
It is reported that any asteroid Oversized, less than 7.5 million km from Earth, it is likely to be “dangerous” depending on its trajectory.