A kilometer-wide asteroid will pass by Earth next week, making its nearest pass for the next 200 years.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launched successfully early Christmas morning from French Guiana on South America’s northeastern coast, riding a European Ariane rocket into the sky. Video: NASANASA’s Jet Propulsion LaboratoryThe asteroid, known as 7482 , was first observed in 1994. It will pass within 0.01324 astronomical units of Earth at 4:51 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Jan. 18.This simulator shows approximately how close the asteroid 7482 will come to Earth when it passes by on Jan. 18, 2022.
The asteroid’s most recent pass by took place on June 26, 2011, but we won’t have to wait that long to see it again. The next flyby is estimated to take place this summer on July 3, though it will be much farther away at 0.44349 astronomical units. On Tuesday, researchers expect the asteroid to be moving at 47,344 mph. Even so, it will be far too distant to threaten Earth with a collision.
Mathematically, the asteroid’s closest point will be five times the distance from the Earth to the moon.
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