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By Rabia Sultan
Asteroid named 2005 YU55 to narrowly miss earth at 6:28 p.m. EST on Tuesday, 8 November 2011.
The asteroid is big....400 meter wide ! Traveling at 800 miles per second, it will come close to earth, as much as being within 325000 km ......!
Despite the above facts, it is reported that NASA is not at all worried about this upcoming incident to occur. Certain Reasons reported by RED ICE are:
While the above falls true, it is also reported that NASA is not guaranteeing Earth's safety in future though! Lance Benner, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a video from NASA that scientists haven't been able to reliably compute the asteroid's path beyond a couple of hundred years from now.
They say, being this much big in size, it could create a four-mile wide crater 1,700 feet deep and even cause 70-foot tsunami waves and shake the ground like a magnitude-7 earthquake.So much cannot be said about when will it return to earth but it can be a threat to earth in future.
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Asteroid named 2005 YU55 to narrowly miss earth at 6:28 p.m. EST on Tuesday, 8 November 2011.
The asteroid is big....400 meter wide ! Traveling at 800 miles per second, it will come close to earth, as much as being within 325000 km ......!
Despite the above facts, it is reported that NASA is not at all worried about this upcoming incident to occur. Certain Reasons reported by RED ICE are:
- The gravitational force is not at all strong enough to cause any earthquakes...
- It has no magnetic field and is not at all expected to strike any object, earth or the moon."There is no chance that this object will collide with the Earth or moon," says Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near Earth Object Program office
- It will not come into contact with cometary debris, Elenin, a black dwarf, Planet X, or Nibiru.
While the above falls true, it is also reported that NASA is not guaranteeing Earth's safety in future though! Lance Benner, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a video from NASA that scientists haven't been able to reliably compute the asteroid's path beyond a couple of hundred years from now.
They say, being this much big in size, it could create a four-mile wide crater 1,700 feet deep and even cause 70-foot tsunami waves and shake the ground like a magnitude-7 earthquake.So much cannot be said about when will it return to earth but it can be a threat to earth in future.
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