A giant space gemstone, bigger than any structure on Earth, is anticipated to fly past the earth moment, 18 January. Giving information about the same, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said that the 1994 PC 1 also known as asteroid 7482 is anticipated to safely pass by Earth at a distance of- country miles Reports suggest that asteroid 1994 PC 1 has been classified as‘potentially dangerous’by NASA because of its closeness while shooting past the Earth. The asteroid has been studied by NASA’s earth defense experts for decades According to a report by Hindustan Times, the giant space gemstone is about1.6 km wide, which means it’s twice the size of world’s altitudinous structure Burj Khalifa (828 metres). An asteroid of this size has the implicit to beget disastrous damage on the Earth.
The American space agency puts asteroids in potentially dangerous order if they’re over 140 measures in size with routeways of them as near as within4.6 million country miles of the route of Earth around the Sun.
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NASA is keeping an eye on asteroid 1994 PC 1 for numerous decades and it’s a Near-Earth Object since it’s near than1.3 astronomical units (AU), with one AU being original to 93 million country miles Still, the closest approach of asteroid 1994 PC 1 to Earth will do at4.51 pm EST moment (3.21 am IST on January 19). As per Earthsky, it’ll be the closest approach for this giant space gemstone for at least the coming 200 times The most recent space gemstone to strike the earth exploded in the atmosphere eight times ago near Russia Lately, the American space agency started a charge to designedly crash a spacecraft into an asteroid as a test run to help a massive space gemstone from destroying life on Earth. In the fall of 2022, the spacecraft is anticipated to hit the asteroid.