30 thousand dangerous asteroids are approaching the Earth

    Interesting facts 17 October 2022 1434

    The number of asteroids approaching the Earth has exceeded the mark of 30 thousand, according to NASA experts. All asteroids are tracked by the European Space Agency's Near-Earth Object Coordination Center (NEOCC) and NASA's Near-Earth Object Research Center (CNEOS).

    All these space objects can crash into the Earth, a collision with them threatens the planet with a global catastrophe, writes Газета.ru.

    These asteroids are located at a distance of about 45 million km from the Earth's orbital path. Of the 400 new objects, 50 have a width of more than 140 m. An asteroid of this size could destroy a city. One asteroid also has a width of more than 1 km, which in a collision could destroy a much larger area.

    It is noted that the network of stations that detect dangerous meteorites was deployed in 2004 after the discovery of the asteroid Apophis, which with a high probability could collide with the Earth.