The asteroid 2012 EG5 pass without risk close to
Earth this Sunday, April 1. The projected distance traffic is 230,000
kilometers, i.e. 0.6 times the distance between Earth and Moon. Its estimated
diameter is about 48 meters, according to the monitoring program of near-Earth J PL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) spacecraft.
Astronomers believe the objects are able to approach
within 3.5 times the distance from Earth to the Moon may be altered in their
normal course by the gravity of our planet or moon. The asteroid 2012 EG5
traveling speeds of 8.24 km / s. It was initially estimated its closest
pass to the April 2 but in the end has been more rapid. It was discovered
on March 15.
On April 1, 2012 the asteroid will EG5 0.6 LD, at 0.6 lunar distances of
Earth. Its diameter is 60 meters and is classified as an Apollo-type NEO
asteroid. In astronomy, the near-Earth objects (known by its English
acronym NEO, Near Earth Object) are comets and asteroids caught by the
attraction of the Sun or other planets, in orbits that could penetrate them
near Earth.
Apollo asteroid is any of the asteroid with an orbit whose semi major axis is
greater than the Earth (1 AU) and whose perihelion is less than the aphelion of
the Earth (1.017 AU). This group of asteroids named after the asteroid
(1862) Apollo and is one of three groups of asteroids that are near-Earth
asteroids. This asteroid poses no threat to our planet.
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