Asteroids twice the size of Qutub Minar to fly past Earth on Diwali, will scatter firework

On vember 12, NASA informed that a rogue asteroid about size of India’s Qutub Minar will flyby planet Earth on night of vember 14, as country celebrates Diwali. “potentially hazardous” Asteroid 2020 TB9 and Asteroid 2020 ST1 will be coming closer to Earth at speed of 28,646 km per hour. Although according to NASA’s release, two asteroids are tiny, about 175 meters in size but are three times longer than a football pitch, scientists estimated. 

According to NASA monitoring services, asteroid 2020 ST1 is expected to miss hitting Earth keeping at a distance more than 19 times distance between Earth and Moon, approximately seven million kilometers as it whooshes past Earth on vember 14. or asteroid is expected to make a low impact trajectory as both Near Earth Asteroids, or NEAs become fireballs outside Earth's atmosphere shattering apart.

“ vast majority of NEAs pass by safely at much greater distances – usually much farr away than Moon,” NASA informed.

"It's really cool to see a small asteroid come by this close because we can see Earth's gravity dramatically bend its trajectory," said Paul Chodas, director of Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Sourn California said about NEA asteroids. 

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To scatter sediments

'potentially hazardous’ asteroids scatter sediments in outer line of solar system and have potential to collide with Earth depending on its future orbits of Sun, according to NASA. “Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are currently defined based on parameters that measure asteroid’s potential to make threatening close approaches to Earth,” NASA said. “Specifically, all asteroids with a minimum orbit intersection distance (MOID) of 0.05 au or less are considered PHAs,” it furr informed. According to Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) website, asteroids have been nudged by gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits that has caused m to enter Earth.

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