A large asteroid is due to pass on April 28

The story about the asteroid and all its fact you need to know.The myths and all actual facts regarding it.The image captured by NASA is as follows.This looks similar to a boomerang.Lot of misconception is speculating regarding it.This article will provide you the exact information that you need to know.

The Arecibo Observatory captured this radar image of the big asteroid 1998 OR2 on April 18, 2020. 1998 OR2 will fly by Earth at a distance of 3.9 million miles (6.3 million kilometers) on April 29.

(Image: © Arecibo Observatory/NASA/NSF)

A big asteroid will pass relatively close to Earth on April 29, 2020. Asteroid (52768) 1998 OR2 will pass at a safe distance, at some 60,00,000 km, or about 16 times the Earth-moon distance. It’ll be the biggest asteroid to fly by Earth this year (that we know about so far); according to current estimates, it’s probably a bit over a 2 km wide and maybe twice that long. Professional observatories have been pointing their telescopes at the huge space rock already. Amateur astronomers with smaller telescopes will also have an opportunity to see it as a slow-moving “star.”

Path of a asteroid 1998 OR2

Interesting: 👉You can watch this live event online at : The Virtual Telescope Project (CLICK HERE to watch) on around 28th April 11:30 PM IST.

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