Although it does not pose a threat to us or to the satellites that surround the Earth , the proximity of an asteroid to our planet, not in vain will “brush” the Earth, makes the event worth taking into account.
The small asteroid, baptized as 2014 RC , will transit very close to Earth this coming Sunday, September 7. Specifically, the time when the asteroid will be closest to our planet will be at 8:18 PM (peninsular time), at which time the planetoid will be over New Zealand about 40,000 kilometers from Earth .
The asteroid was discovered on August 31 by the Catalina Sky Survey in Tucson, Arizona (USA) and, the following night, it was also captured by the Pan-STARRS1 telescope in Maui, Hawaii. Both observations were transmitted to the Center for Minor Planets in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA), according to NASA.
According to experts, the asteroid's orbit will mark that it passes close to Earth again in the future , so the asteroid's movement will be monitored in great detail. Unfortunately, the size of the asteroid will make it not observable with the naked eye, so it will be necessary to use at least a small telescope to capture the appearance of the planetoid as it passes through the Earth.
