Astronomer, Researcher of the Institute of Applied Mathematics RAS Leonid Elenin in a conversation with TASS assessed whether there is a chance of a collision of a potentially dangerous asteroid 2016 AJ193 from the land of August 21.
According to a scientist asteroid, which will be at a minimum distance from the Earth – about 3.4 million kilometers – will not face the planet. “This is a fairly ordinary rapprochement with an asteroid land, which is allocated only by a large size of the object,” said specialist.
According to Elenin, it is most likely, the asteroid was formed in the outer region of the main belt of asteroids, but something brought it out of equilibrium, and the orbit gradually began to change. “Now he can closely close with three planets of the solar system – Venus, Earth and Mars,” he explained.
Earlier in the press service of the Moscow Planetarium, they reported that the greatest danger represent those heavenly bodies that are not tracked by astronomers and the world will find out about them only after falling. However, the asteroid itself for the planet has no threat.