YU 55 Close to Earth

Asteroid YU55

Mark your calendar on the 8th day of November because the asteroid YU55 nearly 400 meters in diameter will pass very close to the earth. The distance is 0.85 times the distance of the Moon to Earth.
Asteroid, discovered six years ago it was not at risk of hitting the Earth even though the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, MA, United States enter the path of the asteroid in the category of "potentially dangerous asteroids." Asteroid can not be underestimated, so research needs to be done ".

  
Scientists plan to create three-dimensional model of YU55 well as predicting the density and shape. When YU55 are very close to the Earth is considered a good time to start research.
By knowing the speed of spinning, shape, density, and other information, scientists can find out the location while nowhere near the Earth. Thus, the model predictions can be made to predict the position of the asteroid several decades or centuries to come.

For the next few years the earth will also be the arrival of "guests" from outer space who came near. Hopefully, studies on the Near Earth Object (NEO) can be resolved so they can get accurate results and a detailed calculation of when exactly will happen and what might be done when it really happened.

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