National Aeronautics and space administration (NASA) has warned the inhabitants of the Earth about the huge asteroid that moves to our planet.
It tells The Mirror Recalling the forecast of professionals NASA, the Earth is a huge asteroid 2014-YB35" width of about one kilometer and a length of 990 meters. He was found by professionals in the past year and currently scientists are carefully watching him maneuver. It is known that the asteroid is moving at a speed of more than 37 thousand km per hour.
According to experts, "2014-YB35" will fly past Earth on Friday, March 27. At this time, the asteroid will be about 4.5 million miles from our planet. Astronomically speaking, it is the "closest distance" - it's just 12 times the distance from earth to the moon.
In that past Earth regularly fly small meteors, nothing extraordinary, but an asteroid of such volumes is a rare phenomenon, and, taking into account the opinion of experts, it is extremely serious threat at the expense of own enormous size.
The NASA professionals warn that the collision of Earth with an asteroid, is able to change life on our planet, is considered to be a matter of time. This will lead to disaster. The collision can be completely destroyed several cities, and the results are small. This danger can be any asteroid impacts on the Earth - the likely changes in climate, earthquakes, tsunamis.
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