“It has no chance to hit the Earth, currently,” said Sheppard, noting that at present 2022 AP7 crosses the Earth’s orbit when the Earth is on the other side of the sun. While the finding of 2022 AP7 may bring to mind visions of the asteroid Armageddon depicted in the film Don’t Look Up, the study also offers reassurance. An impact event is a collision between astronomical objects causing measurable effects. 1, the asteroid will come within about 1.43 million miles (2.3 million kilometers) of Earth, around six times the average distance between Earth and the moon. It would be a mass extinction event like hasn’t been seen on Earth in millions of years,” he said. A major impact event releases the energy of several million nuclear weapons detonating simultaneously when an asteroid of only a few kilometers in diameter collides with a larger body such as the Earth (image: artists impression). 2010 RF12 tops Nasas watch-list in terms of the probability of Earth impact There is a 4.7 chance of a hit by the asteroid, which is estimated to measure 7m in diameter Nasa predicts that the. Also known as asteroid 99942, the near-Earth object is estimated to be about 1,100 feet (340 meters) across and could cause serious damage to the planet's surface if it were to hit. NASAs Lucy mission has spotted its asteroid targets for the first time. “The Earth’s surface would likely cool significantly from sunlight not getting to the planet. CSEOs companies, researchers and teams are skilled in Earth Observation, ICT. “Any asteroid over 1km in size is considered a planet killer,” said Sheppard, adding that should such an object strike Earth, the impact would be devastating to life as we know it, with dust and pollutants kicked up into the atmosphere, where they would linger for years. The half-tonne probe will be travelling at more than four miles a second when it. 1, the asteroid will come within about 1.43 million miles (2. With a diameter of about 1.1km to 2.3km, the team say 2022 AP7 is the largest PHA discovered since 2014 and probably in the top 5% of the largest ever found. In a few weeks, Nasa controllers will deliberately crash their 330m Dart robot spacecraft into an asteroid. Writing in the Astronomical Journal, lead study author Scott Sheppard and colleagues at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington say they have found three “rather large” asteroids, one of which – 2022 AP7 – crosses the Earth’s orbit, making it a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA). NASA has shed new light on an asteroid named Bennu that has a 0.037 percent probability of making an impact with Earth on September 24th in the year 2182.
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