{"id":107397,"date":"2024-09-27T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107397"},"modified":"2024-09-27T06:51:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T23:51:00","slug":"radar-images-show-large-object-drifting-past-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107397","title":{"rendered":"Radar Images Show Large Object Drifting Past Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"block pb-1 text-3xl leading-none uppercase border-b lg:hidden xs:text-4xl font-k lg:text-5 border-red\">The size is astonishing.<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"font-k text-4 font-black  lg:border-b border-gray-900 pb-1\">Tall Boy<\/h2>\n<p>A near-Earth asteroid is turning heads for a distinct shape that makes it awfully hard to take seriously \u2014 even though it&#8217;s &#8220;potentially hazardous.&#8221; As seen in a series of radar images, the rocky object looks a whole lot like an enormous peanut tumbling through space. Or, depending on how you see it, perhaps a decapitated snowman.<\/p>\n<p>The object, known as 2024 ON, came within 621,000 miles of Earth when it blew past our planet on September 16, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/images\/pia26451-nasas-planetary-radar-spies-another-peanut-shaped-asteroid\/\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">according to NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/a>. That&#8217;s about 2.6 times the distance to the Moon, bringing it close, but not uncomfortably so.<\/p>\n<p>First picked up in July by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Hawaii, the nutty invader is also formidably large. Its width is unclear, but lengthwise, it&#8217;s an astonishing 1,150 feet across. If it were a skyscraper, it&#8217;d be nearly as tall as the Empire State Building.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"font-k text-4 font-black  lg:border-b border-gray-900 pb-1\">Gruesome Twosome<\/h2>\n<p>Taken just a day before the asteroid made its close approach with our planet, the radar images \u2014 arranged in an animation <a href=\"https:\/\/photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov\/archive\/PIA26451.gif\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">here<\/a> \u2014 were captured by the Deep Space Network&#8217;s Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to their detail, we now know what the asteroid owes its peanut shape to. It&#8217;s actually what&#8217;s known as a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/two-tiny-moons-glued-together\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">contact binary<\/a>: two smaller objects that are touching each other to form an apparent larger structure.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, one of the rounded lobes is about 50 percent larger than the other, connected by a distinct &#8220;neck,&#8221; NASA said. According to the space agency, at least 14 percent of asteroids of this size \u2014 660 feet and longer \u2014 appear to be contact binaries.<\/p>\n<p>The radar imagery also reveals the presence of distinct features on the asteroid&#8217;s surface, including boulders that show up as bright spots.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"font-k text-4 font-black  lg:border-b border-gray-900 pb-1\">Safe in Space<\/h2>\n<p>This is actually the second peanut-shaped asteroid to swing by our planet in the past month or so. A contact binary of similar size, 2024 JV33, made a close approach on August 18, demonstrating an elongated orbit resembling that of a comet influenced by Jupiter.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, neither of these nutjobs should cause us any harm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This asteroid is classified as potentially hazardous, but it does not pose a hazard to Earth for the foreseeable future,&#8221; NASA said. &#8220;These Goldstone measurements have allowed scientists to greatly reduce the uncertainties in the asteroid&#8217;s distance from Earth and in its future motion for many decades.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>More on asteroids: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/apophis-earth-2029\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">Will This Killer Asteroid Hit Earth in 2029? Scientists Say They&#8217;ll Know for Sure by 2027<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/radar-images-large-object-earth\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The size is astonishing. 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