{"id":38004,"date":"2023-06-26T16:17:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T23:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/?p=38004"},"modified":"2023-06-26T16:17:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T23:17:16","slug":"asteroid-the-size-of-10-buses-to-come-within-3300000-kms-of-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/asteroid-the-size-of-10-buses-to-come-within-3300000-kms-of-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid the size of 10 buses to come within 3,300,000 kms of Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Nasa<\/a> has warned of an asteroid bigger than the London<\/a> Eye set to zoom past Earth this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Nasa\u2019s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies, the massive space rock named 2013 WV44 will make its closest approach to Earth at around 9am on Wednesday, June 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The asteroid is about 160metres in diametre which is bigger than 10 buses stacked end to end and will get as close as 3.3million kilometres to Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Travelling at a speed of 11.8 kilometres per second, it will be moving at roughly 34 times the speed of sound. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It is\u00a0classed by astronomers as \u2018potentially hazardous\u2019<\/a>\u00a0as it will come within 7.5million kilometres of our planet. Still, it poses no threat to life on Earth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s nearly 19 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon. So it\u2019s safe to say that despite its size, the asteroid WV44 poses no harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nasa has been tracking the trajectories of all near-Earth objects beyond the end of the century and it looks like the Earth is in no grave danger for at least the next 100 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the event that a space object is getting too close for comfort Nasa has it covered<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n