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Elephant-sized asteroid passes Earth in extraordinary ‘near-miss’

SteinarBy SteinarJanuary 29, 2023No Comments2 Mins Read
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By T.K. Randall
January 29, 2023 ·  0 comments


There are a lot of potential impactors out there. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 4.0 Pablo Carlos Budassi

The space rock passed us by at a distance of 2,200 miles – a fraction of the distance at which some satellites orbit the Earth.

When it comes to disaster scenarios, there are none quite as terrifying as the prospect of a gigantic asteroid hurtling into the Earth, causing untold devastation and wiping out human civilization.

This isn’t a scenario limited to the movies either – it has happened multiple times throughout Earth’s history, resulting in major extinction events such as the one that killed the dinosaurs.

As things stand, it is not a question of if it will happen again, but when.

Fortunately, though, the asteroid which hurtled towards the Earth last week was most assuredly not one of these extinction-level threats.

In addition to being only the size of an elephant, it passed us by at a distance of 2,200 miles.

More worrying, however, was the fact that this particular asteroid had only been detected relatively recently, meaning that if it had been a threat, it would have been too late to do anything about it.

It also passed us very closely – in fact it was the fourth closest asteroid flyby ever recorded.

This means that the threat posed by asteroids is still very real – even a moderately-sized asteroid could cause a lost of damage if it happened to hit us.

Detecting such objects while they are still far out in space, therefore, remains a critically important endeavor.

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