Discovered on July 15, two days after its closest passage to Earth, 2023 NT1 has resumed its journey to new cosmic horizons.
It is estimated that a piece of extraterrestrial rock with a diameter of almost 60 m traveled a distance equal to a quarter of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
Discovered on July 15, two days after its closest passage to Earth, 2023 NT1 has resumed its journey to new cosmic horizons.
It is estimated that a piece of extraterrestrial rock with a diameter of almost 60 m traveled a distance equal to a quarter of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
Didn’t see and didn’t know! A piece of extraterrestrial rock with a diameter of almost sixty meters “touched” our planet on July 13. Rotating at more than 11,000 kilometers per second, this visitor, unknown to space agencies, dubbed “2023 NT1”, passed from us at a distance of about 100,000 kilometers, or about a quarter of the distance that separates the Earth from the Moon. An unexpected visit that is enough to make you break into a cold sweat. The large rock was only discovered on July 15, 48 hours after it passed through the Earth’s edge, astronomer Tony Dunn said on Twitter.
The newly discovered asteroid 2023 NT1 passed about 1/4 of the distance from the Moon on July 13, but was not discovered until July 15, when it approached Earth in the daytime sky. It can be up to 60 meters across, perhaps larger than the asteroid that formed the meteorite crater in Arizona. pic.twitter.com/VLXB4ChTMJ — Tony Dunn (@tony873004) July 16, 2023
If the size of “2023 NT1” is confirmed by astronomers, then this object will be even more massive than a meteor with a diameter of 50 meters and weighing 300,000 tons, which crashed in the Arizona desert 49,000 years ago in the United States. At the moment of impact, the energy released would be equivalent to 2.5 megatons of TNT, or 150 times more powerful than that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. At that time, this region was not a desert, but was covered with savannah vegetation and inhabited by animals such as mammoths, probably without human presence.
The amateur astronomer recalls in another message posted on the social network Twitter that if this asteroid was not detected by space agencies, it is because it did not pose a danger to humanity. In fact, there are tens of millions of small asteroids the size of 2023 NT1, and detecting them is extremely difficult unless they follow an invisible path towards Earth. So it was with the Chelyabinsk superbolide that crashed on Earth on February 15, 2013. The shock wave, especially strong, knocked out windows for many kilometers, injuring more than a thousand people.
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