A dangerous asteroid passing by the earth without anyone noticing

If you think that space organizations in the world are going to inform about the passage of all dangerous asteroids near the earth, you are very wrong! Recently, a dangerous asteroid passed near the earth and no one noticed it!

Recently published reports show that on the 22nd of July of this year, a large asteroid the size of a hotel passed near our planet, but scientists did not notice it until two days after the event!

As the news shows, an asteroid has just passed near the Earth, whose path was exactly the same as the path of the most destructive meteorite that has entered the Earth’s atmosphere in the last century. The remarkable thing is that this asteroid had a larger size compared to the most destructive meteorite of the century. Published information shows that this asteroid, which has three times the volume of the mentioned meteorite, could cause great damage if it hits the earth.

The big asteroid could have been the deadliest accident of the century!

The asteroid, which scientists have named NT1 2023, was observed on June 15, two days after it passed by Earth. Scientists could not notice the passage of this asteroid near the Earth and this caused some concerns.

The important thing is that the non-detection of such asteroids is a common case in our planet’s protection systems, and NASA is trying to eliminate this big problem in seven years in a project called Neo-Survivor. Europeans are also working on a similar project to detect asteroids approaching the Earth in the next decade and reduce the risk of major damage.

If you want to know more about the horror of asteroid NT1 2023, it is enough to know that the Chelyabinsk asteroid, which was one of the most disastrous meteorites that entered the earth’s atmosphere, was about 20 meters wide; Meanwhile, the asteroid that just passed close to Earth was three times larger and almost the size of George Washington’s hotel.

What would happen if this dangerous asteroid hit the earth?

If this large asteroid were to hit the Earth, there would be significant and incredible consequences for the inhabitants of the impact zone. If we want to better understand the dimensions of the disaster, we must travel in history and go back 50 thousand years. During the Pleistocene, a large crater called the Meteor Crater was created in the Arizona Valley. This meteorite was destroyed after the impact, but it left behind some rare minerals.

If the European Space Agency’s estimates are correct, about one million asteroids that are between 30 and 100 meters wide will pass near the Earth. The scary thing is that 98.9% of these asteroids, which have high destructive power, are not detected at all.

Most of these asteroids maintain a distance in their orbit around the sun most of the time. The approach of 2023 NT1 brought it to a distance of about 60,000 miles from Earth, which is a long distance; But in the scale of space, it is only a hair away and it is also close to our residential area.

Usually in the month, several new asteroids are discovered that pass near the earth and in most cases they do not threaten us in the slightest; But this asteroid has been one of the largest in recent months in terms of size.

The good news for us earthlings is that most of these asteroids maintain their distance in the orbit of the sun most of the time and the probability of them hitting the earth is very low. The asteroid we are talking about passed 96 thousand kilometers from the earth, which seems like a long distance; But when we compare this distance with known space, we see that NT1 2023 was too close to Earth.