19 April 2019 20:15
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An asteroid the size of a house approached Earth
A potentially dangerous asteroid GC6 the size of a house flew past the Earth at a distance of 219 thousand kilometers, reports the portal ″Space.com″ with reference to NASA data.
It is noted that an asteroid with a diameter of 15 to 30 meters was discovered on April ninth. Today at 9:41 am Moscow time, he approached the Earth at the closest distance possible - a little more than half the distance to the moon.
The speed of its flight at this moment was about 2.3 thousand kilometers per hour.
NASA has classified an asteroid as a "potentially dangerous near-Earth object."
MOSCOW, April 19 - RIA News
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