• Email Us: [email protected]
  • Contact Us: +1 718 874 1545
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Medical Market Report

  • Home
  • All Reports
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

2013 NK4: Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Passes Close Enough To Earth To See It

April 16, 2024 by Deborah Bloomfield

Good news, fans of witnessing astronomical events without being obliterated by them: Potentially hazardous asteroid 2013 NK4 is making a close approach this week, and you can view it as it flies past.

The asteroid, first discovered in 2013 by the Siding Spring Survey, is between 400 and 1,000 meters (1,300 and 3,280 feet) across. At such a size, it is classed as a “potentially hazardous” near Earth object by NASA, given the amount of damage it and other bodies like it could do if they were to collide with Earth.

Advertisement

So far, astronomers have been able to predict the orbits of known objects up to about 100 years in the future. The good news is that “no known asteroid larger than 140 meters in size has a significant chance to hit Earth for the next 100 years,” according to NASA.

Though we are discovering new objects all the time – sometimes just before they hit – another method has found that we should be safe for the next 1,000 years from the objects we do know about.



2013 NK4, for example, made its closest approach on Monday, harmlessly passing our planet by more than eight times the distance to the Moon, just as astrophysicists had predicted. While it went past, NASA took the opportunity to image the asteroid and learn more about it.

From the early results, as pointed out by EarthSky, the asteroid looks like it could be a contact binary asteroid, where two smaller bodies have moved together and impacted due to gravity. Asteroid Arrokoth, seen much closer by NASA probe New Horizons, has a similar appearance.

Advertisement

If you’d like to see it for yourself, you should be able to. Though the asteroid made its closest approach on April 15, it should be easier to spot on April 16 and 17. All you will need is a telescope and a guide to locating it.

Deborah Bloomfield
Deborah Bloomfield

Related posts:

  1. China’s Aug export growth unexpectedly picks up speed, imports solidly up
  2. Bolivian president calls for global debt relief for poor countries
  3. Soccer-Barca boss Koeman grateful for vote of confidence
  4. The Dark Reason Why You Never See Narwhals In An Aquarium

Source Link: 2013 NK4: Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Passes Close Enough To Earth To See It

Filed Under: News

Primary Sidebar

  • Supercell Storm Leaves 200-Kilometer-Long Hail Scar Across Canada’s “Hailstorm Alley”
  • “I Never Thought I’d Get To See A Blue Lobster In Person”: Meet Neptune, He’s 1-In-2-Million
  • Why Don’t Polar Bears Hibernate?
  • Anyone Born After 1939 Is Unlikely To Live To 100
  • Are Space-Made Medicines The Future? Find Out More In Issue 38 Of CURIOUS – Out Now
  • An Alien-Like Fish With A See-Through Head And Green Eyes Lurks In The Ocean’s Dark Depths
  • Africa Wants To Change Misleading World Map, The “Wow!” Signal Was Likely From An Extraterrestrial Source, And Much More This Week
  • A “Good Death”: How Do Doctors Want To Die?
  • People Are Throwing Baby Puffins Off Cliffs In Iceland Again – But Why?
  • Yet Another Ancient Human Skull Turns Out To Be Denisovan
  • Gen Z Might Not Be On Course For A Midlife Crisis – Good News, Right? Wrong
  • Glowing Plants, Punk Ankylosaur, And Has The Wow! Signal Been Solved?
  • Pulsar Fleeing A Supernova Spotted Where Neither Of Them Should Be
  • 20 Years After Hurricane Katrina: Is It Time For A New Approach To Hurricane Classification?
  • Dog Named Scribble Replicates Quantum Factorization Records – So We Tried It Too
  • How Old Is The Solar System? (And How Can We Tell?)
  • Next Week, A Record-Breaking Over 7 Billion People Will See The Total Lunar Eclipse
  • The Goblin Shark Has The Fastest Jaws In The Ocean, Firing Like A Slingshot At Speeds Of 3.1-Meters-Per-Second
  • We Thought Geological Boundaries Were Random. Now, A New Study Has Identified Hidden Patterns
  • Do Fish Sleep?
  • Business
  • Health
  • News
  • Science
  • Technology
  • +1 718 874 1545
  • +91 78878 22626
  • [email protected]
Office Address
Prudour Pvt. Ltd. 420 Lexington Avenue Suite 300 New York City, NY 10170.

Powered by Prudour Network

Copyrights © 2025 · Medical Market Report. All Rights Reserved.

Go to mobile version