The resulting image near-Earth asteroid

Pictures of a space body (52768) 1998 OR2 are obtained by astronomers in the framework of the project VRT, was published March 20. A series of photographs made using a three-minute exposure, shows the asteroid in the form of bright dots moving against the background star clusters.

In diameter asteroid more than 4 kilometers. He will pass by our planet on April 29 in 12 hours 56 minutes a day in Moscow at a distance of about 6 million 300 thousand kilometers.

Maximum bonding with the Earth, the body will remain at 16 times farther from it than the distance from our planet to the moon. The next time the asteroid will come closer to us in may 2031.

In the astronomical community of the near-earth space is recognized space within 7 million kilometers from the third planet. It was about 8000 asteroids, exceeding the dimensions of 140 meters. NASA evaluates them as potentially dangerous. The total number of such cosmic bodies in the designated spatial range, probably amounting to 25,000.

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