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ASTEROID 1998 QE2

 

The NASA has discover an asteroid approaching to The Earth, will go down in just 5.8 million kilometres.

The space object, designated as 1998 QE2 by scientists. Astronomers think it will be a spectacular target for radar and hope to get some images that could reveal much about the characteristics of its surface.

The 1998 QE2 measures are almost 2.7 km long. It will pass in a distance equal to fifteen trips between the Moon and The Earth, and it won’t pass again until 200 years.

United States has the best program on the planet for the detection of objects close to the Earth and so far has discovered around 98% of known bodies.

So an asteroid approaching to The Earth provides an important scientific opportunity to study in detail and to understand its size, shape, rotation, surface measures and anything else that we can learn about its origin. Also use new measurements of the distance and speed of the asteroid radar to improve our calculations of its orbit and to compute its movement.

The space policy of the White House, Phil Larson, told the television that we must find asteroids before they find us.

In the process we can learn more about the secrets of the solar system and other opportunities that present the space rocks.

The United States space program includes sending astronauts that capture an asteroid towards the year 2020 but that is in the future!