Monday, October 21, 2013

The asteroid threatens blast Earth "- Aftonbladet

Astronomers report that a newly discovered asteroid with small probability may be heading toward Earth.

warns Russian Deputy Prime Minister and head of the country’s space program for the giant stone:

“A 400 meter asteroid threatens to blow up the whole earth,” writes Dmitry Rogozin on Twitter.

asteroid recently discovered by Ukrainian scientists now finds that it passed the Earth on September 16 with a distance of 6.6 million kilometers. According to UK’s The Guardian classed distance as “risky” even though it is 17 times longer than the distance between Earth and the moon.

reported space rock to be heading back to Earth on Aug. 26, 2032, reports the Russian news agency Ria Novosti.

Creates headlines

risk that it will hit the Earth on which lies under the astronomers on a 63, 000.

Despite this asteroid created the title worldwide.

discovery has received Russian Deputy Prime Minister to go through the roof.

On Twitter, he writes:

“A 400 meter asteroid threatens to blow up the whole earth.”

Utspelen has received U.S. NASA to go out with a statement. On its website, you write under the title “A reality check” that the asteroid with 99.998 percent certainty will miss the Earth, 2032.


“New Discovery”

“This is a relatively new discovery. With more observations, I am convinced that we will greatly reduce or exclude any form of opportunities for future action,” writes Don Yeomans, manager of NASA’s program of objects near Earth.

Until the asteroid investigated more thoroughly, it is classified as one on the Torino scale where the most dangerous objects are classified with number ten, reports CNN.

asteroid has been named the 2013 TV135 by Ukrainian scientists.

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