400- meter asteroid flies to Earth

Employees of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA) is 100 percent sure that will happen on November 8 collision of a large asteroid with the Earth. ...

U.S. space agency by using radar and radio telescope at Goldstone (California) began to monitor the movement of the object 2005 YU55. Space ' stranger ' has a spherical shape, reaches 400 meters in diameter and wrapped around its own axis once every 18 hours. According to estimates by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena (California ), in the coming Tuesday the asteroid will pass our planet at a distance of 324.6 thousand kilometers (0.85 distance between our planet and the Moon ). The heavenly body of comparable size for the last time was close to the same distance to the Earth as 2005 YU55, in 1976. The next such ' rendezvous ' held in 2028.

NASA scientists have calculated the hypothetical consequences of the direct impact of such an object in the planet. The shaking would be equivalent to an earthquake of magnitude 7, provoked a wave of the tsunami reached a height of 22 meters. In the land formed a crater diameter of 6.4 km and a depth of 518 meters.

Observation of an asteroid on Friday lasted 2:00. It will resume on November 6 and will be for four hours a day to 10 November inclusive. The second telescope, located in Arecibo (Puerto Rico ) will be used to track the object on the stage as close encounter with the planet. This time, it is estimated that there will be November 8 at 15:28 at the time the Pacific coast of the USA (November 9, at 02:28 Moscow time).