Anyone with a strong internet connection can watch a bus the size of a bus asteroid Take a safe flight back to Earth today (April 26).
Weather permitting, the virtual telescope project plans to broadcast live telescopic views to be found recently asteroid 2022 HB1. The asteroid will pass within 52% of the moon’s orbit. The broadcast begins at 2:30 PM EST (1830 GMT) and you can watch it in the video feed above or Straight from the Virtual Telescope Project.
The asteroid is approximately 39 feet (12 meters) wide, making it roughly the size of a bus. According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Small World will pass 125,000 miles (201,000 km) from our planet.
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Mount Lemon, part of the Catalina Sky Survey, discovered the asteroid on Sunday (April 24) and made an announcement that day via the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center bulletin.
The asteroid is too small to be consideredpotentially dangerousThis designation requires the asteroid to be larger than 492 feet (150 meters), many times larger than 2022 HB1. A small asteroid does not consistently meet the distance qualifications: potentially dangerous asteroids must pass within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers or 19.5 times the distance to the Moon) from Earth.
NASA has not found any imminent threats yet after decades of scanning the sky, but the agency continues to monitor asteroids through partner telescopes and space monitoring, coordinated by Planetary Defense Coordination Office.
The agency is also testing asteroid defense measures. A notable example of this is 1,210 lb (550 kg) Arrow The spacecraft, which should collide with a small asteroid (Demorphos) in September or October. If all goes as planned, the mission will change the orbit of this asteroid around its larger companion, Didymus.
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