11/23/2023 0 Comments Asteroid watch liveTrump lawyer says Jack Smith showing ‘discomfort’ with protective order. New York is key to Democratic House, and Jeffries is in the redistricting. Trump knocks ‘woke’ US women’s soccer team after World Cup departure Scarborough says Trump has gone ‘full mobster’ with threatening postīill Barr says he’s willing to testify against Trump at Jan. Road closed around Georgia courthouse ahead of possible Trump indictment Trump says protective order would impinge on his free speech Under pressure in Ukraine, Putin lashes out at US in SyriaĪlabama readies for battle over Space Command HQ Map: Does your drinking water contain ‘forever chemicals’? Sofia Kinzinger presses Pence to be more truthful about Trump Ramaswamy calls Juneteenth a ‘useless’ holiday McConnell heckled with chants of ‘retire’ at Kentucky event Legal experts predict Supreme Court won’t spare Trump from trial and verdict Judge Cannon questions use of out-of-state grand jury in Mar-a-Lago. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The system quickly predicted a near miss. The system analyzes trajectories of Near Earth Objects (NEO) to determine any risk to life on Earth. 21 by amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov.Īfter the asteroid’s discovery, NASA used the Scout impact hazard assessment system to determine the threat the asteroid could pose. The asteroid was only recently discovered on Jan. Geosynchronous satellites are shown in green, while the moon’s orbit is indicated in gray. This view of 2023 BU’s trajectory, as caused by Earth’s gravity, is seen in red. The service, provided by the Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory in Italy, uses robotic telescopes to broadcast real-time space imagery online. CST, the Virtual Telescope Project will live-stream the close encounter. Stargazers have their best chance of seeing the asteroid pass over Earth on Thursday. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) How can I see the asteroid passing Earth? A diagram from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) shows 2023 BU’s trajectory, in red, along with the orbit of geosynchronous satellites, shown in green. If it did manage to enter our atmosphere, it would “turn into a fireball” and break apart, NASA said, and small meteorites would then fall from the sky. There is no risk that the asteroid impacting Earth, let alone posing a threat to its lifeforms, NASA assures. Don’t panic! Earth’s core has stopped spinning, may change direction experts say
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