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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Sunday 1. April 2012 Asteroid 2012 EG5 passed close to Earth


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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