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Photographer Films Real-Time View of Huge Asteroid Flying Past Earth - PetaPixel

Photographer Films Real-Time View of Huge Asteroid Flying Past Earth - PetaPixel

Photographer Films Real-Time View of Huge Asteroid Flying Past Earth - PetaPixel
Jan 20, 2022 37 secs

A massive and “potentially hazardous” asteroid measuring 0.68 miles (1.1km) wide flew past the Earth at over 43,000 miles per hour on Tuesday.

Just for reference, the average distance between the Earth and the Moon is about 238,855 miles, so this asteroid zipped by about 5 lunar distances away.

Italian astrophysicist and astronomer Gianluca Masi also captured footage showing a closer view of what the asteroid looked like through the Virtual Telescope Project, which he founded.

It has been classified as a dangerous asteroid due to its path and size — it is longer than 10 football fields — but astronomers had concluded that it would safely pass by Earth at a distance of 1.2 miles prior to the flyby

Here is an animation showing the path of the Earth and asteroid through the 2022 flyby:

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