Asteroid close to the sun that could cause a planetary crash

A group astronomers he discovered a asteroid which is at a distance of 20 million kilometers from the Sun, making it actually closest to our star. Another was then identified to control as it could become one in the very distant future threat for the planet Country.

The peculiarity of these discoveries, which were published on the The Astronomical Magazinelies in the fact that these asteroids, because they have to point the telescopes at the sun, hard to observe. The problem was circumvented by Scott Sheppard and his team of Carnegie Institute of Science (Washington) aim the telescopes at the sun in the 10 minutes of the morning and evening when it was below the horizon.

2021 PH27the closest orbiting asteroid to the sun of all other objects known to date was discovered by Dark Energy Camera This, at the point closest to the sun, reaches a temperature of about 500°C, while at the farthest point it is much further from the sun than at Mercury.

Scientists have also discovered another asteroid, 2022AP7, with a diameter of 1.5 kilometers, making it one of the largest potentially dangerous asteroids ever identified. According to the researchers, this could crash on our planet in the future.

To be track extends from within the earthly to just beyond that of Jupiter. For now, there is no immediate danger, because when it crosses Earth’s orbit, it will be on the opposite side of the Sun from Earth, and Sheppard says it could take tens of thousands of years to get really close to our planet.