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As if the coronavirus pandemic had not been enough during the past 2020 and the beginning of this 2021, this Tuesday the NASA announced that the asteroid 2009 JF1 could hit Earth in 2022, Being the main one in its list “biggest threats” of collision against our planet.
When could the 2009 asteroid JF1 collide with Earth?
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration determined through the Sentry system -which serves for collision monitoring- than the next May 6, 2022 would be the date of collision of the 2009 asteroid JF1, which will be the “most dangerous” in the next 100 years, although the collision probabilities according to its parameters is 0.026%.
Asteroid 2009 JF1: features
NASA estimates that the JF1, What have you been following since 2009, measures about 130 meters in diameter and believe that it has approximately the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt.
Experts believe that in the event that it hits our planet, an explosion equivalent to the detonation of 230 kilotons of dynamite would occur. This explosion would be devastating if you consider that the Hiroshima bomb, Launched in 1945, exploded with a force of 15 kilotons.
Asteroids with potential danger
Other asteroids with potential danger to Earth are in 2005 AD224, which could have contact with Earth between 2023 and 2064, while in 2007 FT3 would impact between 2024 and 2116.
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