Did You Feel That? 4 Asteroids Just Buzzed Earth, One Only A Third Of The Distance From Here To The Moon

Asteroid Passes Earth Within A Third Of The Distance To The Moon

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We people of Earth have had a few close calls with asteroids zipping by our planet over the past several years. And those are just the ones we were told about by the government. Who knows how close a giant space rock has actually come to wiping us all out?

It’s not like the governments of our nation and others don’t keep secrets from us when it comes to the goings on in outer space.

On Monday, one space rock, Apollo Asteroid 2020 HP6, came within 0.33 Lunar Distances or 78,082 miles of Earth. That means it flew by at a distance of one-third the distance from here to our moon.

And while it wasn’t the biggest asteroid (it was certainly no Colossal God of Chaos) at somewhere between 21.3 feet and 36 feet across, it did buzz our planet at around an eye-popping 27,335 miles per hour.

In the footage taken below by the Virtual Telescope Project in Italy, Asteroid 2020 HP6 was still about 434,960 miles from Earth.

“The telescope tracked the fast apparent motion of the asteroid, this is why stars show as long trails, while the asteroid looks like a sharp dot of light in the center of the image, marked by an arrow,” said astronomer Dr. Gianluca Masi, head of the Project.

“The very bright star on the right is Zaniah, Eta Virginis. At the imaging time, 2020 HP6 was at about 700,000 kilometers from the Earth and it was safely approaching us.”

Three more near-Earth space rocks were also being monitored by NASA’s asteroid tracking system: Asteroids 2020 HC5, 2020 HS1, and 2020 HT1.

Apollo Asteroid 2020 HC5 has an estimated diameter of 85 feet and was traveling over 20,000 miles per hour.

Asteroid Passes Earth Within A Third Of The Distance To The Moon

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Amor Asteroid 2020 HS1 is around 141 feet wide and was treveling at a more leisurely 4,500 miles per hour.

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Asteroid Passes Earth Within A Third Of The Distance To The Moon

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While the final asteroid to cross paths with Earth, Apollo Asteroid 2020 HT1, measures approximately 131 feet wide and was crusing at around 22,000 miles per hour.

Asteroid Passes Earth Within A Third Of The Distance To The Moon

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According to The Planetary Society, whose sole mission is to decrease the risk of Earth being hit by an asteroid or comet, we shouldn’t lose sleep over anything like that ever happening. Which is nice considering a senior mission advisor for the European Space Agency (ESA), Professor Alan Fitzsimmons of Queen’s University Belfast’s Astrophysics Research Centre, said, “We will get a serious asteroid impact sometime” and “we will need to do something about it.”

Eh, I’m sure everything will be fine. Nobody will miss us either way.

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