It is scheduled for This evening at 10.16 pm Italian timeI Nearby corridor DaleAsteroid 2011 UL21, Among the ten largest planets, it passed within a distance of 7.5 million kilometers from Earth from 1900 until today. There is no danger to our planetjust a Great show Which will be broadcast live on the ANSA Science Channel starting at 10 pm thanks to the robotic telescopes of the Virtual Telescope Project installed in Manciano, near Grosseto.
“Thanks to the purity of the starry sky free of light pollution of the entire Italian peninsula, we will be able to image the asteroid that will be visible from an engineering point of view even if ideal conditions for observation begin tomorrow.” June 28,” says astrophysicist Gianluca Masi, scientific director of the virtual telescope.
asteroid 2011 UL21, Retrieved 17 October 2011 from Catalina Sky Surveythere Diameter 2310 metres indeed Larger than 99% of all known NEOs. but It won’t get very close to our planet: It will turn into 6.6 million kilometers17 times farther than the moon.
However, this event should not be missed, as Massey points out. “Analysis of the list From the corridors near these bodiesmade available by the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (Cneos) of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it can be concluded that: After this encounter, 2011 UL21 will be among the ten largest asteroids that have passed within 7.5 million kilometers of Earth since January 1, 1900 until today..
It will be smaller in size but just as stunningAsteroids 2024 Mk Who will revive the earth June 29 at 3.46 pm Italian time: with Its diameter is between 120 and 260 metreswe will move on to 290 thousand kilometers from our planet (about 75% of the distance between the Earth and the Moon) “becomes One of the brightest objects of its kind ever seen in modern history“, concludes Massey.
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