Last Saturday (21), scientists discovered an asteroid about the size of a truck that will fly near the Earth.

nicknamed 2023 BUthe asteroid will fly surprisingly close to our planet, but scientists believe that it does not pose a danger.

Is this asteroid dangerous for Earth?

Asteroid 2023 BU is 11.5 to 28 feet (3.5 to 8.5 meters) wide, about the size of a box truck, and was spotted by Gennady Borisov at the MARGO Observatory in Nauchny, Crimea. After its discovery, other observatories around the world also discovered the celestial body, confirming the information and projecting its trajectory and potential danger.

It will pass very close to Earth. In fact, this is a space object that will come closest to our planet, according to records from NASA. It will approach about 3,600 kilometers over the southern tip of South America – closer than many of our satellites in orbit. Although it will pass close enough to burn up in our atmosphere, the American organization said it poses no danger.

The prediction is that he will take the cone from the Earth this Thursday (26) at 16:32. NASA was able to calculate position and trajectory using Near-Earth Asteroid Scouthazard rating system.

“The scout quickly ruled out 2023 BU as an impactor, but despite several observations, he was able to predict that the asteroid would come very close to Earth.“said Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “In fact, this is one of the closest encounters of a terrestrial object ever recorded.”

The number of asteroids is expected to increase in the coming years, but space and defense agencies plan to contain possible threats. As it happened recently with the project Double Asteroid Redirection Test (dart) NASA, which changed the trajectory of the asteroid Dimorphos. This was the first time in history that the trajectory of a celestial body was changed.

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