Huge Asteroid 2022 PW headed for Earth! NASA reveals how dangerously close space rock will come
Asteroid 2022 PW is heading for Earth and NASA reveals when it will come closest to our planet.
An asteroid as big as an aeroplane is headed straight for Earth. Lately, there have been many that have made their closest passes to earth. Scientists have classified many of them as potentially dangerous asteroids due to their close approaches to earth.
The asteroid, named Asteroid 2022 PW is already on its way to Earth travelling at a speed of nearly 25000kms per hour. Nearly 94-foot wide, Asteroid 2022 PW is almost the size of an aeroplane. It will pass Earth at a distance of merely 530,000kms. That is the one of the closest asteroid approaches we've seen so far this year!
Thankfully, this asteroid does not pose any risk to the planet. Davide Farnocchia of NASA's Near-Earth Object Studies Center says, “A 2068 impact is not in the realm of possibility anymore, and our calculations don't show any impact risk for at least the next 100 years.”
NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office monitors the sky with telescopes and keeps a track of upcoming flybys by Near-Earth objects (NEOs). With the help of advanced telescopes, more than 750,000 asteroids have been discovered to date out of which over 27,000 are near-Earth asteroids.
Asteroid kubwa ya 2022 PW inaelekea duniani NASA inaonyesha jinsi hatari ya karibu na dunia ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga ya anga. Asteroidi kubwa kama ndege inaelekea moja kwa moja kwenye Dunia. Hivi karibuni, kumekuwa na wengi ambao wamefanya ziara zao za karibu zaidi na dunia. Wanasayansi wameweka wengi wao katika jamii ya sayari ndogo zenye hatari kwa sababu ya kuwa karibu sana na dunia. Asteroid hiyo, inayoitwa Asteroid 2022 PW, tayari iko njiani kuelekea Dunia kwa kasi ya karibu kilomita 25,000 kwa saa. Asteroid PW-202 ina urefu wa mita 94 na ina ukubwa wa ndege. Itabeba sayari hiyo kwa umbali wa kilomita 530,000 tu. Hiyo ni mojawapo ya asteroidi zilizo karibu zaidi ambazo tumeziona hadi sasa mwaka huu! Kwa shukrani, sayari hiyo ndogo haisababishi hatari yoyote kwa sayari. "Mwanasayansi wa NASA, David Farnock, anasema: ""Mgongano wa 2068 haupo katika nafasi ya uwezekano tena, na mahesabu yetu hayaonyeshi hatari yoyote ya mgongano kwa angalau miaka 100 ijayo."" ""Ofisi ya Usawazishaji wa Ulinzi wa Sayari ya NASA inawakilisha anga na darubini na inafuatilia ndege zinazopita karibu na dunia." Kwa msaada wa darubini za hali ya juu, zaidi ya asteroids 750,000 zimegunduliwa hadi sasa, ambayo zaidi ya 27,000 ni asteroids karibu na Dunia.