Rest Easy In Your Fully-Furnished Dwelling Suite, Asteroid Is NOT Hitting Earth!

An asteroid is set to whiz by earth this Wednesday, April 19. All of our Dwelling Suites guests can rest easy in their fully-furnished suites though because there is no chance that it will hit the earth. If the clouds break, you might want to grab a telescope and look to the sky because the next close encounter won’t be until 2027. If you ask us that’s fine because it can be a little unsettling that a massive rock is speeding toward us.

Large asteroid to whiz by Earth Wednesday – San Antonio Express-News NASA is confident the world will not be destroyed by a large asteroid that will pass Earth on Wednesday.

The asteroid is expected to pass safely at a distance of about 1.1 million miles, or about 4.6 times the distance from Earth to the moon.

The pass is the closest heavenly encounter since asteroid Toutatis, a 3.1-mile space rock, flew by 13 years ago. That asteroid came within four lunar distances from Earth.

“Although there is no possibility for the asteroid to collide with our planet, this will be a very close approach for an asteroid of this size,” according to NASA.

See what it would look like if an asteroid hit different U.S. cities, including San Antonio, in the gallery above.

Wednesday’s asteroid, roughly 2,000 feet wide, will approach Earth from the direction of the sun and will become visible in the night sky after Wednesday. NASA says it’s predicted to brighten to about magnitude 11, when it could be visible in small optical telescopes for one or two nights before it fades as the distance from Earth rapidly increases.

Sky and Telescope says “because of its size and proximity, it will be bright enough to spot in a small, backyard telescope and moving fast enough to see in real time.”

Even if you have a decent telescope and know where to look – rolling west across Coma Berenices – mostly cloudy skies will hide its passage in the night sky.

The next close encounter with an asteroid will be in 2027 when the half-mile-wide asteroid 1999 AN10 will fly by at one lunar distance, about 236,000 miles. Read more…

 

 

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