Monday, June 27, 2011

An asteroid pass close to Earth this afternoon!

NASA has announced that an asteroid to pass close to the ground 10 meters this afternoon! The celestial object, called 2011 will increase to 12 300 MD Kmau above the South Atlantic around 15:30 French time. The consultant explained Brunier area of France Interque distance 12 300 km, was "extremely close across the sky." Sufficient at least for the asteroid crosses satelliteset that the trajectory of Earth's gravity is modified.

The U.S. agency has, however, assured that there would be no collision. Brunier has added that "even if there was a collision, this object is so small - it's a rock, the asteroid is the little prince - that nothing would happen: crossing about 30 000 km / h the upper layers of the atmosphere, he returned to fusion, burn and explode "

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