Asteroid 2023 BU - how to watch asteroid live stream as Earth set for 'near miss'
An asteroid the size of a small truck will pass by Earth tonight , making one of the closest approaches to the planet ever recorded.
Experts say there is no risk of the asteroid – estimated to be 11.5ft to 28ft across – smashing into Earth. Even if it did, it would turn into a fireball and largely disintegrate harmlessly in the atmosphere, with some of the bigger debris potentially falling as small meteorites.Professor Don Pollacco, from the department of physics at the University of Warwick, said: “There are still asteroids that cross the Earth’s orbit waiting to be discovered.
“However, there are likely many asteroids out there that remain undiscovered that could penetrate the atmosphere and hit the surface – indeed many scientists think we could be due such an event.” While any asteroid in Earth’s proximity will experience a change in trajectory due to the planet’s gravity, 2023 BU will come so close that its path around the Sun is expected to be significantly altered. Before encountering Earth, the asteroid’s orbit around the Sun was roughly circular, taking 359 days to complete its orbit about the Sun.
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