Five asteroids will approach the Earth in the near future. NASA scientists believe that none of them will fall to Earth.
This was reported by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Asteroids are considered potentially dangerous for the Earth if they fly closer than 7.5 million km, and their size exceeds 150 meters. The size of asteroids approaching the Earth ranges between 11 and 219 meters. However, the largest of the asteroids is 5,800,000 kilometers away from our planet.
Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory constantly monitor the movement of celestial bodies in space to detect asteroids approaching the Earth in time. Astronomers use observations to predict whether asteroids pose a threat to Earth. According to experts' calculations, if a stone with a diameter of several tens of meters falls to Earth, it will cause significant damage. And celestial bodies, the size of more than 1 km, may entail a catastrophe of planetary scale.