A collision fortunately there, but under adverse circumstances might jeopardize one asteroid satell

We still have vivid memories reports on asteroid Apophis, which 9 January flew near the Earth, and after reading some of your previous newspaper articles vydýchli into it encountered. Well, neither could, as "close" meant in this case 14.5 million kilometers from Earth. indian post office But staying closer proximity. From time to time over a space rock and inside the orbit of the Moon and exceptionally even closer. indian post office
One such meeting is waiting for us as early as next month, tells the server Gizmag. The asteroid indian post office named 2012 DA14 with a diameter of about 40 meters and a weight of 130 000 t in fact flipping 15 February at a distance of 27,700 kilometers from the Earth's surface. It is closer than geostationary satellites track (36,000 km). 2012 DA14 cosmic body against the earth moves relative speed of 6.3 km / s and the potential indian post office impacts on the surface would release energy equivalent to the explosion of 2.5 megatons of TNT.
A collision fortunately there, but under adverse circumstances might jeopardize one asteroid satellites in geostationary orbit. Space Station, which orbits at a low orbit of about 410 km, is out of danger.
Asteroid 2012 DA14 was discovered 22 February 2012 in the Spanish Observatory LaSagra in Andalusia. indian post office During a flyby of the Earth will have space object apparent magnitude 7 and will be observed by a conventional binoculars.
Re: Only 2.5 Megaton? Info for sheep, end ... Phalanx 20 1 2013 21:54 Re: Only 2.5 Megaton? Info for sheep, end ... . 20 1 2013 17:26 Re: The universe is amazing, the only thing that stands between ... kren 19 1 2013 23:43 Re: Only 2.5 Megaton? Info for sheep, end ... Phalanx 19 1 2013 17:56 Re: Only 2.5 Megaton? Info for sheep, end ... weiss 19 1 2013 17:42
Chrome OS heading to the All-In-One
Press Releases