NASA: Asteroid headed for Earth's direction
Asteroids are large pieces of space rocks which are formed in many ways. Since they are small enough to not actually have any gravitational force of their own. They move around aimlessly in various directions based on nearby stars and planets.
Our solar system has many asteroids. Most of them are far away but sometimes they come close to Earth. Statistically speaking, many asteroids come close to Earth yet they are small enough to become a threat.
A recent report by NASA covered by Russia Today mentions how NASA's scout system detected a large asteroid headed in the path of Earth on the night of October 25th.
This new early warning system called Scout is proving to be very useful as it can warn humans about early signs of a possible asteroid impact.
The Jet Propulsion Lab at NASA work alongisde with Scout and it is said to use various telescopes all at once to quickly process data and detect movements of nearby asteroids in order to determine which are a threat and which are not.
However, luckily enough the asteroid's path was quickly calculated by Scout and it was determined the asteroid will dash by earth at a distance of over 300,000 miles.
Although that seems like quite the distance, the universe is so spatial and massive that 300,000 miles is considered relatively very close to planet Earth and could prove to be dangerous.
NPR reported the asteroid passed by earth a day ago. Unfortunately it was unable to be seen by the naked eye considering it is not a glowing comet. Asteroids emit no light and since they were not near the atmosphere of a star or planet they would not catch on fire to emit light.
However one can safely sit in their chairs knowing the earth is safe from large asteroids, for now.
