We are only grains of sand in an endless universe. In the endless stream of daily affairs, few people think about the size of space objects. However, 3D animator Alvaro Gracia Montoya from MetaBallStudios is ready to show us how huge the solar system's asteroids are. He compared them to the size of a man, the Eiffel Tower and New York.
Asteroid 2008 TC3 collapsed when falling in the atmosphere over the territory of Sudan on October 7, 2008:
Asteroid 2014 RC passed at a distance of 33,550 kilometers from the Earth's surface on September 7, 2014:
2004 FH, approaching Earth and Venus, was discovered on March 16, 2004.
(69230) Hermes, in the process of its movement around the Sun, crosses the orbits of three planets: Venus, Earth and Mars:
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(99942) Apophis will approach the Earth in 2029 at a distance of 38400 km from the center of the planet.
(3200) Phaethon crosses the orbits of all four terrestrial planets from Mercury to Mars:
(719) Albert was discovered on October 3, 1911 at the Vienna Observatory.
The largest asteroids: Ceres, Pallas, Vesta:
In August 2006, Ceres was transferred to the status of a dwarf planet, and Pallas began to rank first in size and second in mass among asteroids. Vesta is the brightest asteroid of all and the only one that can be effortlessly observed with the naked eye.
According to the animator, people have enough problems, so you shouldn't be afraid of asteroids either. “Although there are many giants among them, the most dangerous are small ones, since they are more difficult to detect,” Alvaro said.