NASA Asteroid 2018 RC WARNING: Newly discovered asteroid to skim Earth on SUNDAY
The barrelling asteroid will zip past
the planet just after 1pm BST (noon UTC) on Sunday, September 9 - just
five days after it was discovered.
NASA expects Asteroid RC to come incredibly close to the planet at just half the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
Gianluca Masi, head of the Italy-based Virtual Telescope, told Express.co.uk the asteroid will come within 136,700 miles (220,000 km).
The astronomer said: “Next September 9, at 12.06am UTC, the just discovered near-Earth Asteroid 2018 RC, with an estimated diameter of 32m to 71m, will have a very close flyby with our planet, coming as close as 220,000km – about 50 percent of the average lunar distance.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1013855/NASA-asteroid-warning-asteroid-2018-RC-skim-Earth-Sunday
NASA expects Asteroid RC to come incredibly close to the planet at just half the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
Gianluca Masi, head of the Italy-based Virtual Telescope, told Express.co.uk the asteroid will come within 136,700 miles (220,000 km).
The astronomer said: “Next September 9, at 12.06am UTC, the just discovered near-Earth Asteroid 2018 RC, with an estimated diameter of 32m to 71m, will have a very close flyby with our planet, coming as close as 220,000km – about 50 percent of the average lunar distance.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1013855/NASA-asteroid-warning-asteroid-2018-RC-skim-Earth-Sunday
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