A giant 92-foot-tall asteroid called Asteroid 2020 QW3 is heading towards Earth. Will this asteroid collide with Earth tomorrow, August 22, 2022? Know what NASA has to say.
A giant 92-foot-tall asteroid is heading towards Earth and has many wondering if it will collide with our planet tomorrow! The asteroid is moving at a staggering 64800 kilometers per hour. It can be known that Asteroid 2020 QW3 is different from previous asteroids that have passed by Earth recently in that it does not belong to the Apollo asteroid group but belongs to the Amor group. The asteroid orbits the Sun, taking nearly 732 days to complete 1 orbit. This asteroid is large and moves at tremendous speed, so it has tremendous destructive power. Is there any reason to worry about an asteroid strike on Earth?
According to information provided by NASA, the asteroid is about the size of an airplane, will miss hitting Earth tomorrow, August 22 and will fly very close to it at 06:41 am. Nasa says Asteroid 2020 QW3 will pass by Earth at a distance of just 3.3 million kilometers. Although NASA has stated that the asteroid will not pose any possible threat to Earth, it is still classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid due to its proximity to the encounter. it to the Earth and to guard against any possible variation in its flight path at the last moment that could send it directly towards the Earth.
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According to Sky.org, Asteroid 2020 QW3 is at a maximum distance of 321 million km from the Sun. On the other hand, its distance from Earth is only 8.96 million km, or 0.06 astronomical units. The astronomical unit (AU, or au) is basically a unit of length equal to the mean, or mean, distance between the Earth and the Sun, that is, 149,597.870.7 kilometers (92.955,807.3 miles). ).
To study asteroids that are not in the asteroid belt, NASA has the Lucy Space Mission. NASA launched its Lucy spacecraft on October 16, 2021 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. This is NASA’s first space mission to study Trojans, a group of asteroids orbiting the Sun in two groups, according to NASA. It was built to search for trojan asteroids millions of miles from Earth.
In addition to Asteroid 2020 QW3, an asteroid named 2015 QH3 44 feet tall will also pass by Earth on August 22. According to information provided by NASA, the asteroid’s closest approach to Earth will be 1,340,000 MI/Km.
