a minute agoNASA publishes several photos of the asteroid brother who had wiped out dinosaurs (Video)
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(8 years ago)A massive asteroid and “potentially dangerous”, which erupted on Earth on December 16th, just over a week before Christmas, has a dark mysterious gap in its centre, scientists reported. The space stone of about 3.6 miles, called “3,200 Phaethon”, vented the passage of our planet at a distance from [...]
The space stone of about 3.6 miles, called “3,200 Phaethon”, vented the passage of our planet at a distance of 6.4 million miles closer than NASA to capture images with high resolution of its core.
Much to everyone's surprise, images of radar taken during the short picture found that the asteroid, half the size of Chicxulub, the rock that wiped dinosaurs 65 million years back, is completely empty inside, reports “Sputnik International” Transmission Periscope.
“Pheathon” in the form of tennis ball, named after the Greek legend degen-god, who, according to legend, has almost put Earth on fire.
Although, for now, “Phaetho” is a friendly visitor, it is still not known what problems it could cause in 2093 when, according to NASA, it will turn back and come within just 1.8 million miles of Earth.
A video outlining the route that he was traveling to “Phaethon” published by Federal University Immanuel Cant Baltic in Kaliningrad earlier this month shows that the unusual orbit of the asteroid will see him pass closer to the sun than any other asteroid called./Periscopi/
