While people now panics over a deadly virus, space experts are now making marvelous space findings that you would love to see! Within this week, another asteroid might hit planet Earth as NASA identified this as another detected 'Near-Earth Object' or NEO that is possibly taller than the whole building of Empire State in New York! Meanwhile, a space study about a low-mass planet candidate now found that has Earth-like features called 'Super-Earth'!
Heads up! Asteroid taller than Empire State and Super-Earth near Sun spotted!
For those people out there that love the information about NEOs, here comes another potential asteroid that might hit Earth soon. According to UK Daily Express, an asteroid identified as Asteroid 2012 XA133 with a size of 390m or meters taller than the Empire State Building is expected to be seen in Earth skies on Friday, Mar. 27.
As National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA reported on Sunday, Mar. 22, the agency is now tracking the possibility of collision between the asteroid and the planet. Luckily, for now, NASA found no evidence that it will crash on Earth but might just swing by on the planet. Here comes the interesting part, though.
Asteroid 2012 XA133 is now fast-approaching compared to when it was identified eight years ago. This space rock was about 4.1 million miles or 6.66 million km from the Earth-- if you compare it to the distance of the planet from the Sun, which is about 93 million miles or 149.6 million km.
As clarified by the agency, there are a lot of NEOs that surrounds planet Earth. Most of them do not have any impact on the planet, and only some are reported to have the possibility of having a collision with Earth.
"Some asteroids and comets follow orbital paths that take them much closer to the Sun and therefore Earth - than usual-- just like Asteroid XA133," said NASA. "In fact, as best as we can tell, no large object is likely to strike the Earth any time in the next several hundred years."
'Super-Earth' found lurking near Sun; What is Super-Earth?
A recent study from space experts Mario Damasso and colleagues, are now giving more clarity on Earth-like planets called 'Super-Earth' lurking in deep space. According to the research study led by Damasso, a low-mass planet candidate has been seen behind the nearest star from the Sun called Proxima Centauri. It has a distance of 1.5 AU and might be orbiting near the star.
Every 5.2 years, the Super-Earth was seen orbiting near Proxima Centauri, and recently, the potential planet did it again. Researchers suggest that this Super-Earth could have a higher mass than planet Earth but can't exceed the masses of bigger planets like Uranus and Neptune.
Once the findings are proven to be accurate, experts said that it could be one of the highlights in space for the year 2020 since there are still questions regarding the impact and how Super-Earth is born in space.
For now, let's just wait for a while.
