“With asteroids the situation is the same as with cars. The machine does harm only in the event of a direct collision. If she drove a meter away from you, you will not notice this. Asteroid and Earth are disparate quantities. Flying past our planet, he can not influence it in any way. Because from the point of view of the Earth, this is not even a grain of sand, but some kind of molecule that will go unnoticed, with the exception of a few observers. An asteroid is dangerous only if it falls to Earth. Now the situation is completely different and the asteroid will fly at a colossal distance from our planet, ”he said.
Vibe also noted that for an asteroid, a diameter of 400 m to 1 km is completely typical.
“But if he collided with the Earth, the consequences would be catastrophic,” the scientist concluded.
Earlier, the NASA Near-Earth Object Research Center reported that an asteroid with a diameter of 400 m to 1 km would approach the Earth at a minimum distance of October 25.