The asteroid will approach Earth on April 29 and, despite being classified as “potentially dangerous”, it will pass more than six million kilometers away from us, or about 16 times the distance between Earth and Earth. Moon.
Astronomers at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico have been studying the asteroid since April 8, which is traveling at 31,320 km / h . This, which we see attached to the article, is the high resolution radar image taken in Arecibo, and which presents us with a first snapshot of this large asteroid.
The closest approach will be on April 29 at around 09:56 UTC and amateur astronomers with small telescopes will also have the opportunity to see it as a slow-moving "star". If that's not the case, don't worry, the Virtual Telescope Project in Rome will offer a free online public view of the asteroid.
