Danger from the trajectory of an asteroid toward Earth

              

The object BX34 '2012 'was detected on January 25 by the U.S. project participants Catalina, which aims at finding the small bodies in the solar system, asteroids and comets. After the discovery was proved by the Mount Lemon observatories and Magdalena Ridge, USA. UU.

According to calculations of scientists, the size of the asteroid is between 8 and 10 meters, ie the size of a bus, although previously it was believed that this could reach 19 meters.

Astronomers warn that the sun does not represent any danger to the planet. Although this asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere, probably not reach its surface, would disintegrate in the atmosphere.

In turn, asteroids larger than 50 meters in diameter may collide with Earth once every 100 years, and be a threat to similar catastrophes to the Tunguska event. While celestial bodies, the size of a mile, are capable of causing a catastrophe of global scale and fall to Earth every few hundred thousand years.