Experts gave a forecast of space threats for a year
According to Ron Baalke, a NASA astronomer (space explorer at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, there is no threat of strikes from space in the coming year, although there are still dangerous asteroids).
The closest one - almost one hundred meters high - will arrive on July 23, 2017. Small guests - 3 pieces, each about 30 meters across - are expected on December 3, 2017, February 24, 2018 and April 2, 2018. All of them must miss the Earth, being three times farther from it than the Moon. Not scary at all.
Asteroid 2012 TS4 is a real danger. Calculations show that it does not seem to crash into our planet, but it will fly very close - at a distance of 57 thousand kilometers. This is only 0.15 distance from the Earth to the Moon - minuscule on a cosmic scale.
The astronomer announced his forecast for the year on Twitter. How would calm the public
2012 TC4 - not large - also about 30 meters across. He won't do big troubles, if that. On the other hand, this asteroid is about twice the size of the Chelyabinsk meteorite. That is, having exploded due to some misunderstanding in the atmosphere of our planet, a block the size of a railway carriage can greatly frighten earthlings who witnessed its fall.
And in the next month you can completely relax. The skies, predicted by those monitoring space threats, will remain calm. Nine asteroids will sweep past us - large, some as much as half a kilometer in diameter. But closer than 8 distances from the Earth to the Moon will not fly. It is very far away even on a cosmic scale.
Vladimir LAGOVSKY
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