Asteroid 2020 PT4: Airplane-size asteroid to fly very close to Earth today, know more

NASA is currently tracking course of many asteroids that will fly by close to our home planet. ncy has something kwn as Asteroid Watch Widget on its website. This widget displays date of closest approach of objects like asteroids and comets to our planet. It also states ir approximate diameter, relative size, and distance from Earth. Most recently NASA’s widget is featuring, girmous Asteroid 2020 PT4. asteroid seems to have alrey arrived dangerously close to Earth and is size of a large plane. Re on to find out more about rock.

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Asteroid 2020 PT4 has arrived close to Earth

A report on NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory website has revealed that at point of its closest approach, Asteroid 2020 PT4 will only be 0.01266 astromical units (AU) from Earth. In miles, asteroid will be 1,180,000 miles from Earth and in terms of kilometres, it will be 1893909.043 km from our home planets surface. While se numbers make it sound like 110 feet Asteroid is t close eugh but in astromical terms, it is alrey dangerously close. Hence, NASA has classified this as a Near-Earth Object (NEO). In Lunar Distance asteroid is 4.93 LD away from Earth.

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Here’s what we kw about Asteroid 2020 PT4

object is approaching Earth at relative velocity of 12.56 km/s. While NASA h earlier estimated on its website that asteroid is within range of 27-60 m. But it has w determined that asteroid is approximately 33 m. NASA has also classified Asteroid among Apollo class of near-earth Asteroids. 

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What time will Asteroid 2020 PT4 make its closest approach?

According to NASA’s website, rock will make its closest approach to Earth at 15:52 UTC. In terms of Pacific Time (PT), this will be 8:52 am, Tuesday and 11:52 am Tuesday in Eastern Time (ET). NASA has also classified Asteroid 2020 PT4 among Apollo class of near-earth asteroids. 

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Ar Asteroid me a close by on September 1

On September 1, asteroid 2011 ES4 h come very close to Earth, it was even closer than Moon. estimated distance of asteroid 2011 ES4 from Earth was 1.2 lakh kilometres. Ar rock named Asteroid 2020 QG5 approached Earth again after 16 years on very same day. Clearly ne of se asteroids was a threat to our planet.