Asteroid 2005 YU55 Will Hit the Moon
An asteroid of four football fields will reportedly close to Earth on November 8. A large stone space is yet to come this close in 35 years.
This asteroid will fly at a
distance of only 325,000 kilometers, which is actually inside the orbit of the moon. According to NASA, an asteroid named 2005 YU55 will not negatively impact life on earth.
Don Yeomans, director of NASA’s Near Earth Objects to the Project at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said the speed of the object reaches 13km/detik. However, the asteroid will not hit the moon.
“Where to hit the moon, then it is an event that has a very significant historical value,” said Yeomans to Life’s Little Mysteris media. “The collision was not able to change the position of the moon, but would make a crater big enough. The width will of 4 kilomter. Although it looks significant, but it still includes a small,” he adds, Monday (7 / 11).
Yeomans also explained that as 2005 YU55 asteroid approaching the earth at least 100,000 years. Because the moon has a smaller size than the Earth, then these events can occur with a longer period of time, ie once every few hundred thousand years.
When the asteroid hit the moon, then there will be movement of dust at high speeds that can reach the earth. Although a lot of dust will be burned by the Earth’s atmosphere, but a small portion may be up to the plains.
“At NASA, we have many optical radar which can provide an estimate when an asteroid roughly like 2005 YU55 will come to earth. With it, we do not have to be afraid of the danger of this event