Huge asteroid to fly past earth

Huge kilometre-wide asteroid to fly past on January 18th

A huge asteroid will reportedly fly past Earth on January 18th in what will be the closest of its kind for the next two centuries.

NASA’s Centre for Near Earth Object Studies said the space rock will pass within 1.2 million miles of the Earth, and will travel at an immense speed of 47,344 miles per hour.

The asteroid will reach its closest to Earth at around 9.51pm (GMT) on January 18, according to CNN.

It is unlikely the asteroid will be visible with the naked eye, but those lucky enough to have a small telescope should be able to spot it in the distance.

Experts say the space rock, which is named 7482 (1994 PC1), is not expected to crash into our planet. In November last year, a spacecraft was launched by NASA to crash deliberately into an asteroid for the first time in history. DART, or Double Asteroid Redirection Test, is a pilot of a new technology to prevent future asteroid collisions such as the type that wiped out the dinosaurs. The scheme is designed to “punch” an asteroid off course and is the first demonstration of a “kinetic impactor technique” – essentially a high-powered gun – which is designed to change the motion of an asteroid in space.

Experts have said that it is inevitable that an asteroid will one day enter our atmosphere at some point. When that happens, Professor Alan Duffy, director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute, urged people not to be too curious.

He said: “I would say the best advice is, for goodness sake, do not look at this thing. “I mean, it‘s going to be hard not to – the brightness of the glare from these objects burning up in the atmosphere. “That‘s actually what caused a lot of the injuries in Chelyabinsk (a meteor strike in Russia in 2013), people not unreasonably looked up at this enormous burning fireball in the sky, whose brightness was essentially that of the Sun by the time it finally erupted, that caused a lot of retina damage – so make sure you’re not looking right at it.”

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