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Astronomy laboratory believes that the passage occurred at a distance of almost 800,000 kilometers from Earth and the Moon.
One asteroid with more than 200 metros diameter Passed today off the earthat 7:41 am (from Lisbon), according to the Astronomy Laboratory of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In his account of the social network Telegram, that institution states that the object was a thousand times larger than the meteorite that fell in the Russian city of Cheliabinsk in 2013, adding that the passage occurred at a distance of almost 800 thousand kilometers of the earth and the moon.
The now baptized “2025 fa22”, that will have an estimated size of between 130 and 290 meters“It was included in the list of celestial bodies potentially dangerous for the planet ”, having ‘return’ expected for about 11 years, more precisely in August 20, 2036, but at a predictably greater distanceaccording to the experts.
“A potentially dangerous approximation may occur in 2089 and, particularly, in 2173”, indicated in the statement.
For example, the famous Barringer crater in the US state Arizona was caused by the fall of a meteorite between 10 and 100 times smaller than the “2025 FA22”, about 50,000 years ago.
Russian experts estimate that this asteroid is “as if synchronized with Earth and periodically passes near the planet”, with its last approach on September 17, 1940.
“It is important to note that, With this orbit, the probabilities that this space rock will lead some kind of impact with the earth are quite high”The astronomers also warn.
